🗂️How Palantir Builds Surveillance Profiles on Every American
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Palantir's Gotham and Foundry platforms integrate government databases, social media monitoring, financial records, and location tracking to create comprehensive surveillance profiles. Harvard's Shoshana Zuboff warns this represents "the fusion scenario"—merger of surveillance capitalism with state power.
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Why This Matters
Everyone gets a threat score:
Palantir compiles social media posts, financial transactions, location history, and government records into predictive models that assign secret "threat scores" without people knowing or consenting
Job applications run through spy algorithms:
Background check companies access Palantir-processed government data, so surveillance algorithms now affect employment prospects, security clearances, and career opportunities
They track children to tear families apart:
Palantir monitors kids' immigration status, family employment, and household composition to coordinate enforcement actions that separate parents from children
The system amplifies existing racism:
Palantir's algorithms disproportionately flag minorities and immigrants as threats while claiming to be objective, turning technological bias into automated discrimination
Corporate interests override democratic control:
Private companies now control surveillance infrastructure used by intelligence agencies, making corporate profits more important than constitutional accountability
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Palantir's Gotham platform integrates surveillance data from which types of sources?
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Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff's "fusion scenario" describes what merger threatening democracy?
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Palantir's data integration affects employment opportunities through what mechanism?
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Palantir's integration with NSA surveillance programs enables real-time processing of what types of communications?
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When private surveillance companies control government surveillance infrastructure, what democratic principle is violated?
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Palantir's "predictive policing" capabilities determine what before any criminal activity occurs?
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Palantir's systems make what type of decisions that affect individuals' lives without human accountability?
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What fundamental shift in surveillance power does Palantir represent according to civil liberties organizations?
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Palantir's artificial intelligence can process and analyze what types of personal communications in real-time?
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Palantir's "pattern of life" analysis can predict what personal information about individuals?
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Which government agencies share surveillance data through Palantir's integrated platforms?
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Palantir's immigration enforcement algorithms prioritize which factors for targeting families?
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Palantir processes how many data points per second to build surveillance profiles?
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Palantir's machine learning algorithms can detect what types of "anomalous" behavior that trigger investigation?
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Palantir's international surveillance partnerships enable what type of intelligence sharing?
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Palantir's business model requires what condition to maintain profitability?
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According to constitutional law experts, Palantir's comprehensive surveillance represents what type of threat to democracy?
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Palantir's data collection operates without warrant requirements or judicial oversight.
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