Digital Audit: Nothing Technology

Corporate Structure & Controlling Principals

Nothing Technology Limited is a UK-registered private company, company number 12984564, incorporated on 29 October 2020 and registered at Bedford House, 21a John Street, London ¹. The sole active Person with Significant Control on file is Carl Yu Pei; an earlier filing dated 9 February 2021 recorded him as holding more than 75% of shares and voting rights before the record was updated to “significant influence or control” ². Carl Pei, a Swedish national appointed on 29 October 2020, is the company’s sole current director; prior directors on record include Timothy Bruce Warren Holbrow (April 2023–October 2025) and David Sanmartín García (January 2021–April 2023) ³. Reported co-founders of the company are Carl Pei, Akis Evangelidis, David Sanmartín García, Steven Gao, and Levi Li ⁴. No public evidence identified of any of these individuals holding equity stakes, board seats, or personal investments in Israeli surveillance, cyber, AI, SIGINT, or military-technology firms such as NSO Group, Cellebrite, Carbyne, AnyVision/Oosto, Wiz, Palantir, Check Point, SentinelOne, Verint, or Nice. Reported institutional investors in Nothing include GV (Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, Tiger Global, Highland Europe, and C Capital, alongside individual angels such as Tony Fadell, Kevin Lin, Steve Huffman, Casey Neistat, Nikhil Kamath, and Garry Tan, plus a Crowdcube retail “Community” funding round ⁵⁶. No public evidence identified that any of these institutional investors hold a controlling stake of 10% or greater that would independently trigger further scrutiny of Nothing on this basis.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

No public evidence identified of licensing, subscription, or integration relationships between Nothing Technology and Israeli-origin cybersecurity or enterprise-software vendors including Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, Nice, Verint, Claroty, or Palo Alto Networks. No public evidence identified of NICE or Verint call-centre analytics tooling underpinning Nothing’s customer-support operations, which run on the Zendesk platform. No public evidence identified of named systems integrators or IT outsourcing partners engaged by Nothing Technology, nor of any integrator mandating or recommending Israeli-origin technology in a Nothing engagement. Nothing’s primary disclosed hardware and technology partnership is with Qualcomm, which supplies Snapdragon chipsets used across the Phone 1, Phone 2, Phone 2a, Phone 3, Phone 3a, and Phone 4a generations ⁷⁸.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified linking Nothing Phone’s on-device, Android-based “face unlock” authentication feature - a device-local function rather than an enterprise retail-analytics product - to Israeli-origin biometric or facial-recognition vendors such as Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, or Trax. No public evidence identified of Nothing Technology use of Israeli-origin predictive-policing, sentiment-analysis, social-media-monitoring, or workforce-surveillance tools. No public evidence identified of indirect exposure to any such tools via third-party platform providers or bundled enterprise suites used by Nothing.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Independent security research on the Nothing Phone 3a found that device telemetry - including device logs, installed-app lists, and identifiers - is transmitted to Google, Nothing, and Qualcomm servers located in the EU and US ⁹. No public evidence identified of any data routing, storage, or processing occurring in Israel or via Israeli-controlled infrastructure. No public evidence identified that Nothing Technology operates, leases, or co-locates data-centre infrastructure in Israel. No public evidence identified of Nothing Technology participation in Project Nimbus or any comparable Israeli government or state-backed cloud programme, and a direct check of Project Nimbus background material found no reference to Nothing Technology ¹⁰. No public evidence identified of Nothing providing data-sovereignty, data-residency, or infrastructure-resilience services to Israeli state or military bodies.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of any contract, partnership, or service agreement between Nothing Technology and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the IDF, Israeli intelligence agencies, or other state security bodies. No public evidence identified of Nothing’s commercial products being deployed for military, intelligence, or law-enforcement surveillance applications in Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories. No public evidence identified of Nothing Technology developing, selling, licensing, or maintaining offensive cyber capabilities, zero-day exploit tools, or digital weapons systems, nor of deployment of such tools by Israeli state actors using Nothing technology.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

No public evidence identified of Nothing Technology providing AI/ML, computer-vision, or autonomous decision-support systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies. No public evidence identified that Nothing’s predominantly on-device, Android/Qualcomm-stack AI features have been trained on, or granted access to, civilian population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets originating from Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories. No public evidence identified of Nothing providing autonomous target-generation, automated threat-detection, or autonomous-tracking systems to Israeli military or security forces; such capabilities would in any case fall under the Military domain boundary rather than Digital.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

No public evidence identified of any Nothing Technology R&D facility, engineering office, innovation lab, or accelerator programme located in Israel; comparison against general reference lists of multinational R&D centres in Israel likewise returned no Nothing Technology entry. No public evidence identified of Nothing acquiring any Israeli-origin technology company or making strategic investments in Israeli startups or venture funds. Nothing’s primary hardware and technology partnership is with Qualcomm for Snapdragon chipsets, first announced in October 2021 and continuing through the Phone 1, 2, 2a, 3, 3a, and 4a generations ⁷⁸. Qualcomm separately operates its own R&D centres in Israel, including in Haifa and Hod Hasharon, as part of its general global operations, but No public evidence identified connects Qualcomm’s Israeli R&D activity specifically to the chipsets used in Nothing devices, and no direct Nothing–Qualcomm-Israel relationship has been identified; this is noted as generic global-chip-vendor background rather than a verified Nothing-specific relationship. No public evidence identified of patent, licensing, or co-development arrangements between Nothing Technology and Technion, Hebrew University, the Weizmann Institute, or other Israeli-domiciled research institutions. Separately, Nothing has reported plans for a roughly Rs 1,000 crore joint venture aimed at making India a global manufacturing hub for the company ¹¹.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

No public evidence identified of NGO investigations by Who Profits, AFSC Investigate, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Access Now, Citizen Lab, B’Tselem, Al-Haq, or SOMO naming Nothing Technology in connection with Israeli state technology relationships or operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; a Who Profits search returned only an unrelated company, Teltone Electronics ¹², and an AFSC Investigate search returned only unrelated companies such as Cellebrite, L3Harris, Partner Communications, and Bezeq, with no Nothing Technology entry ¹³. A separate NGO compilation, the “Don’t Buy into Occupation V” report, was also checked for a Nothing Technology listing, and none was located in the visible search excerpts reviewed ¹⁴. Nothing Technology does not appear in the OHCHR’s database of business enterprises linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which as of its most recent update in September 2025 listed 158 enterprises from 11 countries ¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷. No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, or sanctions campaign against Nothing Technology specifically related to technology provision to Israel; one consumer-boycott tracking resource explicitly states that the Nothing Phone is “not associated with Israel” and is not included on its BDS-related tracking lists ¹⁸. No public evidence identified of any regulatory inquiry, legal challenge, export-control action, or sanctions-related investigation involving Nothing Technology’s sales or services to Israeli state entities. Nothing Technology maintains an ordinary consumer retail presence in the Israeli market, with its products sold through the retailer BUG and the Nothing Phone (2a) covered by the Jerusalem Post as commercially available in Israel in 2024 ¹⁹; No public evidence identified tying this retail channel to settlement-based stores, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, or any digital-sovereignty or government function.

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