According to Robert Reich, “Palantir Technologies, [co-founded by Peter Theil] is an AI-based data platform that allows its users — among them, military and law enforcement agencies — to analyze personal data.
This personal data is used to identify and surveil individuals.
Palantir is now busily combining personal data on every American gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, and Internal Revenue Service, including their bank account numbers and medical claims.
Representative Warren Davidson, Republican of Ohio, told the Semafor news site, “When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it’s a power that history says will eventually be abused.”
Thiel’s Palantir has fallen under the control of Trump. How this story ends is up to all of us.”
Notes: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worst-of-the-corporate