"Minority Report 2.0" - Will Trump's Palantir Partnership Be Used To SPY On Americans?

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

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PBD Podcast dives into the Trump-Musk feud and Palantir’s role in a controversial data-sharing executive order. Laura Loomer pushes Palantir to track immigrants in LA. Explore the tech’s power, privacy concerns, and what’s next.

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0:00.0	All of a sudden, while this is going on, you know, a lot of people are not comfortable with Palantir.
0:03.7	So a lot of people are wondering, they're saying, okay, let's see what's going to happen here.
0:07.7	Laura Lumer comes out and tweets about Palantir, and she says, maybe this is time for Palantir to be used, right?
0:14.2	I think time to deploy Palantir tech to L.A. to deal with the illegals.
0:18.5	You know you'd love to see it. You're lying if you wouldn't.
0:22.6	Now, what is Palantir? Why don't we go there? What is Palantir? For some of you that don't know,
0:28.6	the history of Palantir is very, very spooky is what it is. Okay. President Trump,
0:35.6	executive order to enable federal agency data exchange relies on Palantir technology,
0:40.5	co-founded by billionaire investor, Republican megadona, Peter Thiel, with New York Times reporting the Trump administration aims to eliminate information silos and streamline data collection across agencies to increase government efficiencies and save hard-earned
0:57.0	taxpayer dollar. Pallantir received $130 million from the government this year, including a $795 million dollar
1:03.2	department of defense contract last week. Palantir technology gathers and analyzes vast data for
1:09.1	agencies like Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs, Enforcement,
1:13.1	ICE, and the IRS. As the New York Times noted, the firm's technology can gather and analyze
1:17.9	enormous volumes of data for numerous government agencies, TechBillion, Al-Musk, and the
1:22.1	government of Doge chose Palantir for this project. Tom, tell me what you know about Palantir and what part of it
1:32.3	excites you if any of it does and what part of it concerns you. Okay. Palantir is a tool. Palantir is
1:38.2	not a database. It is a tool. What does the tool do? The tool like Excel allows you to take a whole
1:44.0	bunch of data and to dive into that data and figure out things. So that's what Palantir does. Why are people worried about it? Because it is an incredibly fast, adept, and powerful tool. The Social Security Administration, Pat, already has petabytes of information on America.
2:02.5	When we're born, what we're doing now, they know every job you've had, because every time you
2:06.7	have a job and you have FICA deducted from your paycheck, Vinnie, goes to Social Security.
2:10.8	They know every job you've had.
2:12.4	The IRS, they know they've got all the W-2s.
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