I've found that people who make this kind of statements often aren't familiar with the kind of work Palantir does. Palantir doesn't collect any information. Th

I've found that people who make this kind of statements often aren't familiar with the kind of work Palantir does. Palantir doesn't collect any information. They build tools for the government to browse information they already have. For example they build a tool to visualize the flow of monetary transactions between different people as a graph. They didn't collect this information, the government already has this information on financial transactions. Whether or not Palantir existed, the government collects the same information. Sometimes people make the argument that building better tools to make correlations between these pieces of information amounts to a threat to privacy. But that seems like a much weaker argument to me. The government already has the information being analyzed with Palantir, and if the people don't think the government should have this information we have mechanisms in place to remove leaders and elect ones that will eliminate this data collection.