The data analytics company Palantir has been working with the U.S. government for about 15 years on all sorts of things.

This year, ICE is going to pay Palantir $30 million to improve how it targets and surveils undocumented immigrants.

And your response to this probably depends to some degree on your politics.

But the Trump administration is also expanding Palantir's reach on something that would affect all Americans.

The idea is to link together all the data that the government has about us.

This is unprecedented.

So anyway, Theo Vaughan freaks out.

This sounds crazy, dude.

And confronts J.D. Vance.

It can tell if your kids are, you know, if your kids can have a limp or whatever, he'll be in the Christmas play.

Veep is like, it's going to be okay.

But, FYI, I also just learned about this.

I actually just read about it earlier today or maybe yesterday.

Coming up on today, explained, what's Palantir up to?

This is today explained.

I'm Noelle King, and here too far, the U.S. government has kept your personal data siloed across

many different agencies in the interest of protecting your privacy.

And good on them because the government actually does have a lot of your data.

Here's John Davison of the Electronic Privacy Information Center or Epic.

It is a long list.

And it depends on the ways that you interact with the government.

Some of the ones that are quite common would be income information, certainly your contact information,

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