The administration has sought access to detailed citizen data, including bank account numbers, student debt amounts, medical claims, and disability status, from government databases. Palantir has secured over $113 million in federal contracts since Trump took office, with ongoing talks to expand its technology to the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, according to six government officials and Palantir employees.
The New York Times reported: "This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.) Representatives of Palantir are also speaking to at least two other agencies — the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service — about buying its technology, according to six government officials and Palantir employees with knowledge of the discussions."
Former Atillis Gym owner and patriot speaker Ian Smith wrote in a post on X:
Donald Trump just handed Palantir the contract to build the federal AI database, which will be the single most dangerous consolidation of power in modern American history.
— Ian Smith, Sr. (@iansmithfitness) May 31, 2025
Palantir isn’t a tech company. It’s a surveillance machine born inside the CIA, funded through In-Q-Tel,…
Donald Trump just handed Palantir the contract to build the federal AI database, which will be the single most dangerous consolidation of power in modern American history.
Palantir isn’t a tech company. It’s a surveillance machine born inside the CIA, funded through In-Q-Tel, and run by Peter Thiel — a billionaire data oligarch who openly brags about crushing right-wing populist movements in Europe with his software.
Now he’s here, building the backbone of American AI. This is the same Peter Thiel who:
- Groomed the character of JD Vance.
- Shapes national AI policymaker as an unelected powerbroker.
- Pretends to be “anti-woke” while embedding Palantir across every global intelligence agency.
- And Trump - the guy who ran on “drain the swamp” - just handed him the keys.
Ian Smith continued, "You are watching a merger of Big Tech, Big Government, and Artificial Intelligence - branded as patriotism.
They’re not creating tools. They’re building infrastructure for digital authoritarianism.
Palantir has already been used for pre-crime arrests and pandemic lockdown enforcement.
And now it’s being given access to national databases under the flag of “security.” This isn’t the Patriot Act 2.0. This is Revelation 13 in real time. “He causes all… to receive a mark… no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark.”
You think the mark will look like a chip? It’ll look like this: An AI assigning you a risk score. A predictive model determining your access to banking, travel, medicine. A tech priesthood deciding who’s “dangerous.”
And Trump is funding it. Palantir is the digital beast system. Thiel is its architect.
And conservatives are sleepwalking into their own captivity - cheering as their “anti-establishment” hero turns the surveillance state into a machine learning monster. This isn’t freedom. This is Babel in binary."
It remains to be seen what the exact goal of Palantir is beyond surveillance; the purpose of this article is to highlight what current speculation holds.
