Paranoid tech bosses are pouring millions into beefing up their personal security details as hostility over Big Tech’s role in shaping global politics continues to reach fever pitch.

Security budgets for the CEOs of ten big tech companies have risen by more than $45 million in 2024, according to research by the Financial Times, with some upping their spending by more than 10 percent.

“I’ve never seen the threat or the concern higher than it is today,” former FBI agent and private security specialist James Hamilton told the FT. “People are fixating on the leader of a company as the representation of all that is wrong with the world.”

But while security budgets were already on the rise throughout last year, they ballooned in December with the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief Brian Thompso

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