Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, says his software was solely responsible for defeating the far right in Europe.
Now, it might have a large footprint in the United States.
Palantir’s technology is in the new Big Beautiful Bill. It is causing some concerns. The technology has been used extensively in the UK and EU. Europeans suspect it has become a surveillance system against the right. It’s potentially how they have been able to censor them.
SOMI, a Dutch privacy group, is calling for a large-scale investigation into the partnerships that data analytics company Palantir Technologies has with a number of law enforcement and intelligence agencies throughout the European Union. They are concerned that agencies are making use of “predictive policing” technologies.
Predictive! Imagine.
Palantir has quietly been testing its forecasting systems in cities such as Los Angeles and New Orleans since 2013. They are assigning risk numbers to people with police records and forecasting whether they are involved in crimes.
It’s Reach Is Growing in the United States
Reason notes that Palantir has been used for everything from local law enforcement to COVID-19 efforts. Under President Trump, it has expanded its reach into government in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Pentagon. Palantir technology has largely been used by the military, the intelligence agencies, the immigration enforcers, and the police. Social Security and the IRS have expressed interest in the technology.
The fear is it could become a centralized government database of everyone’s personal information.
The Trump Executive Order
Donald Trump’s March executive order to remove data consolidation barriers has expanded Palantir’s AI-driven database project. People are becoming concerned that it would become a “digital ID” vulnerable to abuse.
A few Republican lawmakers have voiced concerns, but it is moving ahead.
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants it out of the BBB. Trump wants it make the government more efficient, but in the wrong hands?
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