National Security · AI Governance · Civil Rights·June 15, 2025
Palantir hits $4.5 billion revenue as Trump expands surveillance contracts
Peter Thiel's surveillance empire projects $3.9 billion revenue as government contracts surge
Palantir Technologies projects $3.9 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025, with 54% of that revenue coming from U.S. government contracts (SEC filings; CNBC Q1 2025 report).
In 2024, Palantir spent $5.77 million on federal lobbying, targeting intelligence-authorization and defense-appropriations committees (OpenSecrets).
Palantir’s $30 million ICE contract provides real-time location tracking and social-network mapping of immigrant communities to support coordinated enforcement actions (NPR; Reuters).
The Gotham data-integration platform was originally developed after 9/11 for counter-terrorism operations and has since been expanded to broader surveillance use (Palantir history; The Intercept).
Palantir’s Foundry platform enables government agencies to consolidate and share data across traditional regulatory boundaries, bypassing prior inter-agency restrictions (Palantir; ACLU).
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