This whole controversy is simply an attack on DOGE and fraud detection. They are not concerned about your data security. It’s a squirrel to keep you from noticing their grift.
“This whole controversy is simply an attack on DOGE and fraud detection. They are not concerned about your data security. It’s a squirrel to keep you from noticing their grift.”
Sounds like convenient reason to let our rights be compromised and for tyranny to come upon us.
Once again, would your answer be the same if President Kamala was doing this ?
Yes.
Palantir isn’t collecting our data. It’s not deciding what to do with it. It’s a data processor, not a data controller or collector. The federal agencies define the rules, the sources, and the outputs, and the agencies provide the data.
Palantir was not hired to spy, but to clean house. The goal is to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and decades of bureaucratic fungus. The potential cause for concern —what is worth real scrutiny— is that once data is better organized, it’s easier to misuse. The same tools that catch duplicate payments or filter out ineligible recipients could, in theory, be used to profile dissenters, target political enemies, or perish the thought, supercharge immigration enforcement.
That’s why progressive critics are howling, frantically trying to gin up a conservative civil rights panic. They could care less about our privacy. What they really fear is that the invisible galleons —the ghost fleets of siloed bureaucratic control— might stop sailing. They are freaking out that the Spanish doubloons of federal spending will no longer flow quietly into their NGOs’ bank accounts under the banners of “social equity,” “outreach,” or “compliance infrastructure.”
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