According to records obtained by WIRED, the data broker made famous for selling location data related to abortion clinic visits has signed a contract with the US Air Force.
Although SafeGraph is best known for dealing in cell-phone-based location data, its pitch to the Air Force makes little mention of data about human movement—the only direct reference is a slide that says it can help “analyze human activity for Landing Zone selection,” without explaining what that means. But SafeGraph has recently expanded its business to incorporate other kinds of data as well.
In its slide deck for the Air Force, SafeGraph also claims to use a “global language model” able to “ingest data from 193 countries” and “100+ languages” to augment its data about physical places using “web-crawling and Machine Learning.” In response to a question about outstanding challenges, it said it plans to build “deeper language models” to help it gather data about places of interest to the Air Force, such as the Middle East.
SafeGraph is funded in part by the CIA-backed venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, and In-Q-Tel head of investments George Hoyem sits on SafeGraph’s board, according to its slide deck. SafeGraph has alsofrom a motley crew including Peter Thiel, Sam Harris, former Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor, and former Saudi Arabian intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud. SafeGraph’s last funding round valued the company at $370 million, according to the records.
In a post-contract questionnaire, SafeGraph told AFWERX it had met eight times with various parts of the Air Force to discuss the use of its products. It now plans to apply for a larger Phase 2 contract with the Air Force in the third quarter of 2023, targeting Task Force 99 of the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The records also mention the possibility of a facility security clearance, which would allow SafeGraph to access classified information directly.
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