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Why Are you Feeding the Palantir Database?
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Rob Braxman Tech

Why Are you Feeding the Palantir Database?

TL;DR

Everyday devices, apps, and political choices feed Palantir's mass surveillance system, which governments use to track and flag citizens as threats.

Key Points

  • 1.Palantir is the primary government surveillance contractor. It provides AI-powered data analytics that integrates thousands of databases for the military, intelligence community, and law enforcement, enabling mass behavioral tracking of citizens.
  • 2.Identity databases form the unavoidable foundation of surveillance. Birth certificates, Social Security records, driver's licenses, passports, medical records (centralized under Obama), voter rolls, and fingerprints are all accessible to Palantir via government contracts.
  • 3.Flock cameras and ALPR technology trace your physical movements. These automatic license plate readers are installed at intersections, freeways, and parking lots across cities like Los Angeles, creating a timestamped trail of everywhere you drive — including protests.
  • 4.Commercial data brokers like Fog Data Science sell your location to law enforcement. Apps harvest phone location data, sell it to Fog Data Science, which sells it to police — and your home address de-anonymizes your identity by tracking where your phone sleeps.
  • 5.Your phone is described as the single biggest personal surveillance device. CALEA (a Clinton-era law) lets law enforcement wiretap calls, read texts, and track cell tower location; Apple and Google harvest 24/7 location data; Ring cameras feed both Flock and Palantir databases.
  • 6.Politicians on both sides have expanded surveillance infrastructure. Obama centralized medical records and built the intelligence database foundation; Biden's FBI labeled parents at school board meetings as terrorists; 25 US states passed internet age-verification laws creating new behavioral tracking databases.
  • 7.Pseudonymity is the key defense against behavioral profiling. Hiding your phone IMEI, advertising ID, IP address, MAC address, and real name from behavioral databases prevents Palantir from linking your actions to your locked-in identity records.

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