Trump wants Palantir to craft a master list on Americans
The surveillance state's digital panopticon is about to get a lot stronger.
President Trump signed an executive order last March authorizing the federal government to share data across agencies.
People started asking questions about whether he might compile a master list of personal info on Americans. Trump (allegedly) wants Palantir to create that master data list.
Palantir is a publicly traded big data analytics company. It was founded by Peter Thiel, Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, and Alex Karp in 2003. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Palantir is closely tied to the deep state. They’re cool with spooks and the United States DoD.
Palantir has garnered over $113 million in federal contracts since Trump returned to the White House. Public records show extra money from existing contracts. New contracts with the DHS and the Pentagon, too.
That’s on top of a nearly $800 million DoD contract awarded to Palantir last week. According to several government officials and Palantir employees, there are ongoing talks to send the tech to the SSA and IRS.
The Trump administration wants extensive access to sensitive citizen data. We’re talking about bank account numbers, student debt amounts, medical claims, and disability status, yanked from government databases.
At least three DOGE agents worked at Palantir. Two others had worked at companies funded by Peter Thiel. He is a key financier of the Dark Enlightenment and it’s Praxis.
Ex-Palantir strategist Brianna Katherine Martin departed the company because of its extra work with ICE, according to her LinkedIn.
“Today was my last day at Palantir. After much consideration, I decided to resign in light of the expansion of work with ICE under this administration.”
“For most of my time here, I found the way that Palantir grappled with the weight of our capabilities to be refreshing, transparent, and conscionable,” she wrote.
“This has changed for me over the past few months. For me, this is a red line I won’t redraw.”
CEO Alex Karp is an ambitious fan of techno-militarism. “This is the software century, and we intend to take the entire market,” he wrote to investors on the eve of Trump’s reelection.
Palantir has done work for the Israelis, helping them in their genocide against Gaza. This cost the company a contract with Storebrand Asset Management last October.
Palantir sponsored a shindig in Simi Valley. It was filled with Silicon Valley defense tech exec bros selling drones and software.
Foundry, a key Palantir product, made it into at least four federal agencies, including the DHS and the Health and Human Services Department.
According to Karp, Palantir’s core mission is:
Americans are the most loving God-fearing, fair, least discriminatory people on the planet. And they want to know that if you’re waking up and thinking about harming American citizens or if American citizens are taken hostage and kept in dungeons, or if you’re a foreign power sending fentanyl to poison our people, something really bad is going to happen to you and your friends and your cousins and your bank account and your mistress and whoever was involved.
After this database story broke in the NY Times, the media is on high alert, laser-focused on monitoring expansions in the government’s ability to spy on its citizens. Trump and future presidents would have unchecked surveillance power.
Stay tuned for further updates to this ongoing story.
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