Lawmakers Demand Palantir Provide Information About U.S. Contracts
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The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on people through government databases, including their bank account numbers and medical claims. Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to police immigrants and punish critics, Democratic lawmakers and others have said. Privacy advocates, student unions and labor rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block data access.
Republican lawmakers have also raised concerns about the Trump administration’s plans to consolidate data across government agencies.
Palantir’s work on such a project could be “dangerous,” Representative Warren Davidson, Republican of Ohio, told the Semafor news site this month. “When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it’s a power that history says will eventually be abused.”
After The Times published the article about Palantir, the company said on X that the report “is blatantly untrue” and published a blog post denying it was a vendor on a project to unify databases across federal agencies.
In a statement on Monday, the company said, “Palantir does not build surveillance technology, and we are not building a central database on Americans — nor will we.”
Right, you just create new companies and collect that data from them
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The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on people through government databases, including their bank account numbers and medical claims. Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to police immigrants and punish critics, Democratic lawmakers and others have said. Privacy advocates, student unions and labor rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block data access.
Republican lawmakers have also raised concerns about the Trump administration’s plans to consolidate data across government agencies.
Palantir’s work on such a project could be “dangerous,” Representative Warren Davidson, Republican of Ohio, told the Semafor news site this month. “When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it’s a power that history says will eventually be abused.”
After The Times published the article about Palantir, the company said on X that the report “is blatantly untrue” and published a blog post denying it was a vendor on a project to unify databases across federal agencies.
In a statement on Monday, the company said, “Palantir does not build surveillance technology, and we are not building a central database on Americans — nor will we.”
Right, you just create new companies and collect that data from them
Sauron Denies Request for Contract Information
Reading a prepared statement from the tower of Barad-dûr, the Mouth of Sauron indicated today that the Dark Lord would not be complying with the demands of lawmakers to provide information on its contracts with the Trump Administration. The Messenger of Mordor further called the demands "ridiculous" and "unnecessary government intrusion into private affairs of Sauron, who does not answer to any higher authority, save that of his fallen master Morgoth." Furthermore, the statement chastised the lawmakers for contacting Sauron through the Palantir, which he described as "an illegal privacy breach," and said he planned to seek legal action for this invasion of his personal communications.
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