Border Profiteers
The Border Profiteers List is a database compiling companies which are involved with and profiting from the European border system. The fortification and externalisation of borders is not only driven by political interests but also by being a source of profit for an array of different companies from producers of surveillance equipment and weapons to concrete and food distribution for camps, consultant companies and research facilities.
The Border Profiteers List is a non-exhaustive and growing resource for civil society actors, researchers and activists. An online form to submit contributions to this list will be available here shortly.
As the Border Profiteers List relies on open and public sources we make no warranties about the completeness of information provided in this list. We also do not assume any legal liability or responsibility for outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information. However, we will address reports of outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information as quickly as possible.
A large proportion of the entries is based on research by the Informationsstelle Militarisierung (Information Centre for Militarisation).
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| Registered office | Germany - Munich |
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| Categories | big data |
Cancom is an IT Service Provider supporting the "digital transformation" of companies and governance with about 4.000 employees.
Read more| Registered office | Spain - Madrid |
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| Categories | big data |
Everis is a global company dedicated to the "disruption" and "digital transformation" of government agencies and enterprises, i.e. helping them move their data and services to "the cloud". Everis has been part of the Japanese NTT DATA Corporation since 2013.
Read more| Registered office | France - Paris |
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| Categories | big data |
Sopra Steria is a result of the merger of the two French companies Sopra and Steria in 2014. Sopra began as a software company, while Steria was initially active primarily in research and development and increasingly in IT infrastructure. However, from 2000 onwards, both companies acquired other companies on a large scale and expanded their portfolios. Today (as of 2020), Sopra Steria describes itself with "46,000 employees" as a "leading European management and technology consultant" with the goal of "driving digital transformation." The German homepage lists a total of 13 business units, including "Aerospace", "Defence", "Government" and "Homeland Security".
Read more| Registered office | Switzerland - Neuchâtel |
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| Categories | big data |
Travizory is the start-up of an engineer from Neuchâtel who previously worked at SITA, among others. The company offers software solutions that certify travellers' "harmlessness" (in the sense of the security authorities) and issue visas based on biometric data and artificial intelligence. According to the company's founder, the systems have access to "databases of lost or stolen passports and databases of people wanted by organisations such as the FBI, the CIA, the United Nations or Interpol". According to its own information, 50 countries, airports and airlines already use the company's services (as of May 2021), which allegedly means that 80 …
Read more| Registered office | Israel - Tel Aviv |
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| Categories | big data |
Windward was founded in 2011 by two former members of the Israeli Navy. It specializes on AI-based analysis of data on shipping traffic. The startup received US$5 million from Israeli venture capital fund Aleph in a first round of funding in 2013. When the capital fund Horizon Ventures joined in 2015, the value of the still relatively small company was already estimated at US$ 100 million. With its databases and evaluation tools, it contributes to the implementation of trade sanctions against North Korea and the observation and classification of Iranian cargo ships, among other things.
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