The Trump administration is collecting data on all Americans, and they are enlisting the data analysis company Palantir to do it.

President Trump has enlisted [Palantir], founded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel, to carry out his March executive order instructing government agencies to share data with each other. The order has increased fears that the government is putting together a database to wield surveillance powers over the American public.

Since then, the administration has been very quiet about these efforts, increasing suspicion. …

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.

The administration’s efforts to compile data began under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative, which sought Americans’ personal data from multiple agencies including the IRS, the SSA, Selective Service, Medicare, and many others.

Palantir is not just a military contractor, it was a company created to privatize and house the Bush-era, neocon-run surveillance program Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, housed previously at DARPA, and put it under increased CIA control (though the CIA was also intimately involved with TIA). TIA was shut down by Congress because it would have eradicted the constitutional right to privacy, but Palantir has accomplished that and gotten away with it because it is a private sector entity. Palantir’s earliest funder besides Peter Thiel - The CIA Palantir’s first client for its first several years as a company - The CIA Where did Palantir engineers every 2 weeks for years for guidance in developing their products? - CIA HQ Palantir’s originally intended clients per CEO Alex Karp - The CIA If there [ever] was a CIA front company it’s Palantir. (Though Peter Thiel has since quipped that the CIA is a front for Palantir)

Like Palantir’s “predictive policing” efforts, TIA was designed as a pre-crime program to stop both terror attacks and bioterror and even pandemics before they can happen. Palantir has developed the programs to accomplish all of this, the latter through their HHS and CDC partnerships, which will likely be used to pre-emptively declare the next pandemic before any outbreak emerges. Palantir played an outsized role in Op Warp Speed, distributing batches of experimental vaccines to minority communities first.

The company has witnessed more than $113 million in federal government expenditures since the new Trump administration took office, stemming from both existing contracts and new agreements with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. Palantir is reportedly also in discussions with the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service regarding the use of its technology. Additionally, the company secured a $795 million contract from the Department of Defense in late May.