“Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans”
May 30th, 2025Via: New York Times:
In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.
Mr. Trump has not publicly talked about the effort since. But behind the scenes, officials have quietly put technological building blocks into place to enable his plan. In particular, they have turned to one company: Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm.
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work across the federal government in recent months. The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Mr. Trump took office, according to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. (This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.)
Flashback: Vance is Thiel’s creature… That means, of course, that Vance is Palantir’s creature.
I just watched “Citizen 4”. I was appalled at how much I had forgotten from only 10 years ago.
In addition to how much data must have been collected from then to now, there is the fact that it’s been collected on everyone in the US as well as elsewhere, whether Snowden knew it or not. As Catherine Austin Fitts explains, govt depts are above the law.
I wonder how many of the AI centers being built are dedicated to encyclopedic storage and retrieval and how many to analysing and predicting human behavior and inventing ways to control or eliminate us.
“I wonder how many of the AI centers being built are dedicated to encyclopedic storage and retrieval and how many to analysing and predicting human behavior and inventing ways to control or eliminate us.”
I’m afraid that it was completed a long time ago in Utah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
It’s fed by systems like I wrote about here:
https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=877
and here
https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=1550
and here
https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=2590