Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American | Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway

https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans

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  2. Ahh great timing on Musk’s  “WH departure” and then this… pretty clear what happened to all that data he gobbled up.

  3. If and when we get power back…. Remember we will need to “select all” – “delete” – wipe drives.

  5. The same MAGAs who lose their shit about 5G and MRNA vaccines being able to microchip them (or whatever) will be fine with this.

  6. Some concerning details:

    >Palantir is speaking with various other agencies across the federal government, including the Social Security Administration and the IRS, about buying its technology, according to the Times. Palantir’s Foundry tool, which analyzes and organizes data, is already being used at the DHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, and at least two other agencies, allowing the White House to compile data from different places.
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    >Privacy advocates, student unions, and labor rights organizations are among those who have sued to stop Trump’s data collection efforts. Palantir’s involvement also gives a powerful tech company access to this data, and its CEO, Alex Karp, doesn’t exactly have a benign agenda, hoping to cash in on American techno-militarism. Musk too has plans for government data, using his AI, Grok, to analyze it. Will anyone be able to stop Trump and these tech oligarchs

    We should all be concerned about these data collection and analysis by the government in collaboration with private corporations. Without critical guardrails, the release of everyone’s personal data to the private sector is likely to benefit the owners of those companies and diminish the agency of individuals. Interestingly, those who have been most vocal recently about the government collecting their data though have thus far been relatively quiet about the involvement of companies like X and Palantir.

  7. All those small government types, where are you? Right leaning libertarians?

  8. I assumed this was done after Bush jr passed the Patriot Act.

  9. Been waiting for Thiel to make his move. They want the US to be the dystopian authoritarian greatest hits of Russia and China combined.

  10. Far right conservatives are obsessed with stuff like this, but will be completely blind to it when done under Trump.

  11. Congress can stop this any time.

    They choose not to.

  12. Remember when we were complaining about the patriot act?

    Suddenly that seems so quaint compared to the level of surveillance we’re now getting subjected to.

  14. Trump contacts company named after evil artifact to make evil registry list on all taxpayers using taxpayer dollars.

    I fucking hate this timeline.

  15. So, it took 20 years to get Real ID because everybody was resisting having a national id, but a database of everybody that’s all right with supporters of Elon and Trump… The fascist brainwashing was apparently very effective.

  16. Calling it “Palantir” already gives it really sinister vibes 

  17. remember when Bill Clinton proposed a national ID Card and the right lost their collective minds? I Do

  18. Y’Know, living through the beginning of a distopian nightmare is giving me a new perspective on distopian media and history. I used to feel a certain degree of sympathy for average people caught up in it. I thought they were victims and deserved understanding. I figured they didn’t understand what was happening, that it was done on the down low until it was too late to stop.

    But not any more. We are watching it play out right in front of us and doing nothing.

  19. Fuck Donald Trump.

    Put that in your fascist fucking database.

  20. Libertarians and Conservatives who are perpetually, falsely paranoid of “the government is watching me!” Are now suddenly ok with the big government literally watching them.

  21. I haven’t seen this mentioned enough: Peter Thiel, the billionaire behind the rise of JD Vance and PayPal/venmo business partner of Elon Musk, owns Palantir. This is an even worse situation than the headline portends.

    Their plan is laid out here: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=P6nI9tL_Bby4X8wb

  22. Everyone who worked at DOGE needs to go to jail for the rest of their life. Everyone.

  23. And this is EXACTLY what Elon was doing with Doge. I predicted this and told everyone I could about this bullshit, Elon was grifting and stealing for himself first, and then stealing data for Peter Thiel/Palantir.  

    Everyone should be fucking TERRIFIED right goddamn NOW.  Elon was always the useful idiot for Peter.  He’s the REAL ghoulish evil motherfucker we have to worry about.

  24. My recollection is that Palantir was the name of the devices that Sauron used to corrupt and control people in Lord of the Rings.

    Republicans are doing all the evil out in the open now.

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