{"id":19817,"date":"2025-08-19T16:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/us-surveillance-firms-run-a-victory-lap-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:37:19","slug":"us-surveillance-firms-run-a-victory-lap-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/us-surveillance-firms-run-a-victory-lap-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US surveillance firms run a victory lap amid Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palantir and others boast \u2018bombastic\u2019 growth, Microsoft helps monitoring of Palestinian phone lines, Meta faces backlash over child safety<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, currently enjoying Shirley Jackson\u2019s eerie final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/13\/russia-clamps-down-on-whatsapp-and-telegram-over-data-sharing\">Russia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram, alleging apps used for fraud and terrorism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/12\/crypto-do-kwon-fraud-guilty\">Crypto mogul Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud for $40bn market collapse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/12\/elon-musk-apple-openai-sam-altman\">Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/aug\/14\/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-services-are-driving-viewers-back-to-piracy\">Can\u2019t pay, won\u2019t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/18\/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis\">\u2018Shut it down and start again\u2019: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/18\/trump-enterprise-surveillance-microsoft-meta-robots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/401b162ec16faf59ee7b5daf8725dda33e1c2b7d\/375_0_3750_3001\/master\/3750.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4d6782a7dd89f227d896f1e443ec9c05\" title=\"US surveillance firms run a victory lap amid Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown\" \/>Palantir and others boast \u2018bombastic\u2019 growth, Microsoft helps monitoring of Palestinian phone lines, Meta faces backlash over child safety<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, currently enjoying Shirley Jackson\u2019s eerie final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle.<br \/>\nRussia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram, alleging apps used for fraud and terrorism<br \/>\nCrypto mogul Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud for $40bn market collapse<br \/>\nElon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud<br \/>\nCan\u2019t pay, won\u2019t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy<br \/>\n\u2018Shut it down and start again\u2019: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palantir and others boast \u2018bombastic\u2019 growth, Microsoft helps monitoring of Palestinian phone lines, Meta faces backlash over child safety Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, currently enjoying Shirley Jackson\u2019s eerie final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Russia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram, alleging apps used for fraud and terrorism &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/us-surveillance-firms-run-a-victory-lap-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US surveillance firms run a victory lap amid Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}