Trump’s Palantir Database: A Dystopian Surveillance State?
Following the largely secretive consolidation of citizen data under a previous government efficiency initiative, Palantir Technologies has received over $113 million in government funding since the Trump administration began, a figure projected to increase significantly with a recent $795 million Department of Defense contract. The company’s data analysis tool, Foundry, is already utilized by several agencies, facilitating White House data aggregation. Discussions are underway to expand Palantir’s reach to agencies such as the Social Security Administration and the IRS. This expansion has occurred despite prior legal challenges to similar data collection efforts.
John Q. Hosedrinker