June 14, 2025
Palantir combines government databases to build complete citizen profiles
Palantir fuses government databases with social media for comprehensive surveillance profiles.
June 14, 2025
Palantir fuses government databases with social media for comprehensive surveillance profiles.
Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry platforms ingest social media monitoring, financial records, location-tracking data, and government databases to assemble individual surveillance profiles without consent.
Palantir systems process billions of data points per second to update threat scores and behavioral profiles in real time.
Secret “threat scores” generated by Palantir’s predictive models can influence employment decisions, security clearances, and other life-changing outcomes via background-check companies.
Research indicates 89% of major data brokers sell personal information that can feed into government surveillance systems like Palantir’s.
Civil liberties groups report that Palantir’s data collection often occurs without warrants or judicial oversight, circumventing traditional constitutional protections.
Palantir embeds its employees directly within federal and local agencies, blurring the line between corporate contractors and government operatives.
What percentage of data brokers sell personal information that ends up in Palantir's surveillance systems?
Palantir processes how many data points per second to build surveillance profiles?
Which agencies use Palantir to share surveillance data?
Palantir's Gotham platform integrates surveillance data from which types of sources?
Palantir's data integration affects employment opportunities through what mechanism?
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