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While Donald Trump and his friends in Silicon Valley are betting heavily on artificial intelligence and crypto-technologies to make a quick buck from data mining, others are cashing in on the fact that this data mining also generates real world possibilities of making money in the bricks-and-mortar world. 
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In early May 2025, Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested for attempting to inspect the Delaney Hall detention center in his city. The center is run by GEO Group, a private prison company, on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

In late August 2025, around 500 migrants were taken to a detention center in California City in the Mojave desert some 100 miles north of Los Angeles.

Plane spotters have long been able to track celebrities like Taylor Swift as well as clandestine U.S.

Across the country, resistance to Trump’s maverick actions is mounting. A tidal wave of protests is unfolding notably against Big Tech companies like Amazon, Oracle, OpenAI and Palantir as well as other Trump administration-affiliated businesses like CoreCivic, CSI Aviation, GEO Group and Energy Transfer.
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Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., one of the world’s largest insurance companies, pledged not to provide insurance to “transition laggards” (companies that are failing to tackle global warming) for new fossil fuel terminals and power plants, in response to a campaign by activist groups like Greenpeace, InsureOurFuture and ReCommon in Italy.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement called for a boycott of supermarket chain Carrefour in 2022 over company ties to illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Read More

PepsiCo refused to allow a shareholder resolution requesting the company look into allegations that it is buying sugar from female farm workers in Maharashtra, India, who are coerced into undergoing hysterectomies. Read More

Two new troves of internal documents from Palantir, a data surveillance company based in Colorado, have shone a light on how computer programmers are designing new software to help the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) track and deport thousands of people.