Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

Friday, May 30, 2025

The New York Times writes about data analysis firm Palantir's new contracts with the Trump Administration. "Creating detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream," NYT writes. "The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases, including their bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims and any disability status."

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The data analytics firm Palantir is building a master list of personal information on Americans that could give president Donald Trump immense surveillance power.[image or embed]
-- Raw Story (@rawstory.com) May 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Gee, I wonder what Donald could possibly use this detailed portrait of Americans to accomplish?

And MAGA honestly wonders why it and Trump are hated.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-30 08:12 AM | Reply

Giving surveilance power to psychos

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-30 08:15 AM | Reply

Musk and Karp and Yarvin. The thread that runs through all three is Peter Theil. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

#3 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-30 08:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

It's all computer!

There is no way on God's green earth that Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco (his very skin matches the color of the taco shell, and is just as thin and brittle) understands anything about what is being done here. After he got to the point in the explanation about how he was able to monetize this invasion of privacy the Orange One was on to other things...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-30 08:29 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Re: #3 Lee

Or is it Yarvin that is the thread? Do you have a link to a well-written explainer on these evil fnckers? I'll dig for some myself

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-30 08:36 AM | Reply

^Karp's the CEO of Palantir pictured in the paywalled Times article. The Times won't do an adequate job digging into how psycho the guy is, though

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-30 08:40 AM | Reply

Totally illegal.

I had to handle with kid gloves while they were needed and shred immediately after they weren't all the SF-86 documents my Marines had to fill out to get/maintain clearances because it was a detailed dossier on a US citizen who had presumably done nothing wrong and therefore something we shouldn't keep.

#7 | Posted by qcp at 2025-05-30 09:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

You can't complain Democrats, you had the opportunity under Obama to sunset the PATRIOT act and instead you expanded it ...

#8 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-30 09:29 AM | Reply

What was that quote about fascism coming to America ...

Congrats, maga morons, you're willingly creating that which you've always claimed to loathe.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 09:33 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This will let them sort us more efficiently when they start sending us to work camps.

#10 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-30 09:34 AM | Reply

#8 is the kind of deflection bulls^%# we can expect from the idiot righties.

GFY moron.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 09:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You can't complain Democrats, you had the opportunity under Obama to sunset the PATRIOT act and instead you expanded it ...

Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-30 09:29 AM | Reply

Don't complain now. We warned you that once more power is given to government it is rarely rescinded. More often than not expanded. This is what you said that you wanted. Don't cry now.

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-30 09:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Musk/DOGE did much the same thing and the MAGA response was, "What's the big deal? Musk already has all your data from Paypal?"

Idiots.

#13 | Posted by anton at 2025-05-30 10:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why not bury their data centers in case Teslas in the parking lot blow? Or an artificial offshore territory, maybe in orbit?

Palantir will infiltrate and complicate legal process.

This results in a total militarization of police, imo.

#14 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-30 10:14 AM | Reply

GO ---- YOURSELF MAGA

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-30 10:42 AM | Reply

This country and trump gets more fascist by the day.

And right wingers wanna talk about Biden. It's pathetic.

#16 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-30 10:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

With the amount of info they'll have, I'm sure it will be a cake walk to deanonymize data at will.

Nothing will be safe from their prying eyes.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 11:00 AM | Reply

"We have met the enemy. And it is us."

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 11:46 AM | Reply

Remember when republicans pretended to care about their privacy?

Between BushJr and TACO we no longer have any.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-30 11:59 AM | Reply

Just a hunch: The first target group is menstruating women in Red states.

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 12:02 PM | Reply

"Priscilla Almodovar, Fannie Mae CEO, said Wednesday at a press event that the goal is for the firm to "identify fraud more proactively" with the help of Palantir, starting with its multi-family housing business. An early test showed that Palantir's technology, which includes elements of artificial intelligence, could identify fraud in seconds that took human investigators two months to find, she said."

As usual, Democrats freaking out when fraud is exposed. IT'S WHY YOU GOT SLAUGHTERED IN NOVEMBER MORONS!

#21 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-05-30 12:13 PM | Reply

"Democrats freaking out when fraud is exposed"

What fraud?

Republicans have yet to demonstrate any fraud.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 12:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#21 nobody is freaking out about fraud you stupid f%^*.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 12:21 PM | Reply

the goal is for the firm to "identify fraud more proactively"

Gas lighting us is not going to work.

Maga has already made its goals quite clear.

Revenge and Retribution.

So. I am gonna make your job so easy Palantir.

THE FRAUD IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE!!

Which is why republicans are about to be "slaughtered" in the midterms.

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 12:22 PM | Reply

#22 No, you just stick you head in the sand when it is exposed. Another example: www.foxbusiness.com

#25 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-05-30 12:23 PM | Reply

Someone IS definitely freaking out.

And its name is Fishpoo.

AI will have to be the entity to do this because Trumpy and the DOGE babies fired all the Inspectors General.

I for one am so very eager to have AI going thru my personal finances and deciding my future and scoring my trustworthiness and acceptability to society. I hear they just love it in China.

The Singularity is Nearer.

#26 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 12:33 PM | Reply

Another example: www.foxbusiness.com

#25 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You are gonna have to do better a lot better than that to justify Trumpy's hateful authoritarianism and dismantling of our democratic institutions and his carelessness disregard for the constitution and the civil rights of Americans.

I see your paltry $66 million and raise you $93.1 billion recovered by the Biden Administration Inspectors General (*BT) in 2024 alone and by democratic means.

One also wonders how much did it cost Americans for Trumpy to be able to claim he saved $66 million.

(*Before Trump)

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 12:47 PM | Reply

#25 tell me you don't understand numbers without telling me you don't understand numbers.

BTW fraud has always been found out at a low level. Nobody claims there is absolutely no fraud.

It's only you idiots hyperventilating over a fraction of a percent of fraud as a reason to burn it all down. Almost as if you're looking to support burning it down and grasp at "fraud" as a justification because you're too chickens^*% to just say you want to burn it all down.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 01:29 PM | Reply

FishPawn hates America, because Trump told him it sucks.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-30 03:15 PM | Reply