The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.
Freedom of the Press Foundation is suing the administration for documents behind the database. We know that this isn’t just something that the Trump administration would exploit; once built, it’s unlikely any administration could resist the urge to weaponize our personal information.
This nightmare privacy scenario began one year ago, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that expanded data sharing across the federal government. The administration touted the order, “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” as a way to target fraud within a supposedly bloated government.
The order was no such thing.
Seriously. This is not new. The whole Prism thing before Palantir had all the data but not the ontology. I’m glad Europe learnt from Snowden.
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Sorry, this is the first I’ve heard of Palantir Gotham.
Jesus Christ, I hate media-illiterate nerds. Batman, famously, DOESN’T TRUST COPS!
There are people who perceive immigrants as threats, especially states in the former East Germany.
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It’s painful to read Palantir still being used in EU as well…
The UK is handing data on every citizen to Palantir as they integrate it into (what remains of) the health service. Starmer’s government is stupid and corrupt.
The UK is not part of the EU (European Union), although it is part of the content “Europe”.
Yes, that is true.
Germany, Spain, and possibly the Netherlands have purchased contracts for Pegasus. Spain already used it on some activists.