So, we know this is going on, and it’s something one really does not want the government to be up to. I won’t be surprised, if in the future AI will assist in creating a totalitarian state along the model of the Chinese, here in the United States. That’s pretty alarmist, but things like Project 2025 can lead in that direction. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation stated in July, 2024: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be".
We could end up walking right into a totalitarian society…
The possible creation of a shareable, governmentwide database of Americans’ personal information would be a “surveillance nightmare,” 10 House and Senate Democrats wrote in a letter to the tech company.
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A group of Democrats are demanding that Palantir provide Congress with additional information about its contracts with the federal government following reports that the tech company is working with the IRS to create a searchable database of U.S. taxpayers’ records.
In a
June 17-dated letter to Palantir CEO Alex Karp, the lawmakers asserted that the company “is enabling and profiting from serious violations of Federal law by the Trump Administration.”
The missive — led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. — comes after an article
published by The New York Times last month said the company’s work with the administration “began as a way to create a single, searchable database for the IRS, but has since expanded” into developing a centralized platform of information on Americans that would be sharable across federal agencies.
“The unprecedented possibility of a searchable, ‘mega-database’ of tax returns and other data that will potentially be shared with or accessed by other federal agencies is a surveillance nightmare that raises a host of legal concerns, not least that it will make it significantly easier for Donald Trump’s Administration to spy on and target his growing list of enemies and other Americans,” the lawmakers wrote.
In addition to Wyden and Ocasio-Cortez, the letter was signed by eight other Democrats in the House and Senate. Wyden is also the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.
The Democrats claimed that Palantir’s contract with the IRS “blatantly violates the notice, transparency, and procedural requirements of the Privacy Act,” which requires the government to provide public notice about routine uses of Americans’ data, as well as disclose agencies’ policies and procedures around the storage and disposal of collected information.
Palantir’s expanded federal role was reportedly driven by President Donald Trump's March
executive order to promote the inter-agency sharing of data. According to The New York Times, Palantir’s database work with the Trump administration was also influenced by the Department of Government Efficiency. Several DOGE members are veterans of Palantir, and several other former employees of the tech company have been
installed in key government positions, including as the federal chief information officer.