The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work across the federal government in recent months.
Per a New York Times report, President Donald Trump has tapped CIA-funded and backed Palantir, a data analysis and defense contractor, to collect Americans’ personal data to create a new master hub to store this data as part of a federal plan to consolidate and nationalize this data.
In March, President Trump signed an executive order – “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos” – that instructs government agencies to share data with each other.
The purpose of the order states: “Removing unnecessary barriers to Federal employees accessing Government data and promoting interagency data sharing are important steps toward eliminating bureaucratic duplication and inefficiency while enhancing the Government’s ability to detect overpayments and fraud.”
Specifically, Trump’s order directed the following:
Agency Heads shall take all necessary steps, to the maximum extent consistent with law, to ensure Federal officials designated by the President or Agency Heads (or their designees) have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software systems, and information technology systems — or their equivalents if providing access to an equivalent dataset does not delay access — for purposes of pursuing Administration priorities related to the identification and elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. This includes authorizing and facilitating both the intra- and inter-agency sharing and consolidation of unclassified agency records.
[…] Agency Heads shall take all necessary steps, to the maximum extent consistent with law, to ensure the Federal Government has unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State programs that receive Federal funding, including, as appropriate, data generated by those programs but maintained in third-party databases.
The President’s cryptic executive order caused many to wonder what this would mean for their private data, namely things such as bank account numbers, student debt, medical information, and disability status.
As noted in the NYT’s report and by other outlets such as The Tokenist, the Trump administration already has a fairly cozy relationship with Palantir, whose co-founder Peter Thiel is a staunch advocate for and donor to Trump, and a number of agencies have already purchased Palantir’s technology.
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