President Donald Trump’s White House united with a private company in order to establish a country-wide database of Americans and their most private information.
That means you and your information could be added into the system if Trump continues to pursue this plan.
Palantir, the company hired by the White House, is “a Colorado-based analytics company co-founded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel,” according to reporting by Newsweek.
In a statement to Newsweek, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Senior Policy Counsel Cody Venzke said the following: “Shady, centralized dossiers on citizens are foundational for attacking civil rights and civil liberties—but paper files have long been replaced by a mishmash of electronic forms, biometrics, and data bought off data brokers. AI platforms like those built by Palantir are the key to pulling together the many data points the government has on each of us—your political donations, governmental benefits, movements, and perhaps firearm records, could someday be a single click away for dozens of governmental agencies."
This isn’t the first time that Palantir was hired by the federal government. According to Newsweek, the company’s platform, Foundry, “has already been deployed at the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Health and Human Services, potentially enabling cross-agency information sharing.”
The news of a potential nationwide citizen database implemented by Trump sparked backlash from the president’s own supporters.
Nick Fuentes, a typically active voice within the MAGA community and a white nationalist, expressed his outrage on X — calling Palantir “the deep state.”
On Instagram, people are comparing the hypothetical database to that of Project Insight in “Captain America: The Winter Solider”: a program that analyzed citizens for assassination targets that would threaten the exist of HYDRA, an organization that was born out of Nazi Germany.
“The 21st century is a digital book… Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, emails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores,” Jasper Sitwell, played by Maximiliano Hernández, said in the movie.
Others are comparing it to 1984.