Palantir and others boast ‘bombastic’ growth, Microsoft helps monitoring of Palestinian phone lines, Meta faces backlash over child safety
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, currently enjoying Shirley Jackson’s eerie final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Surveillance is industrializing and privatizing. In the United States, it’s big business, and it’s growing.
My colleagues Johana Bhuiyan and Jose Olivares report on the companies aiding Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, which are running a victory lap after their latest quarterly financial reports:
Palantir, the tech firm, and Geo Group and CoreCivic, the private prison and surveillance companies, said this week that they brought in more money than Wall Street expected them to, thanks to the administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
