Trump appears to be building an unprecedented spy machine that could track Americans: A new report shines light on

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Trump appears to be building an unprecedented spy machine that could track Americans

A new report shines light on contracts with tech company Palantir, 🫨which could create data profiles of Americans to surveil and harass them.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-palantir-surveillance-americans-rcna210017

May 30, 2025, 3:25 PM CDT

By Ja'han Jones

As Donald Trump and his administration pursue crippling austerity measures across the country, they’re plunging millions of dollars into the president’s pet projects. And that includes reportedly giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a company that’s expanding the government’s ability to spy on its own citizens.

The New York Times has a new report on the administration awarding contracts to the controversial tech company Palantir, which is apparently helping Trump develop a database of Americans’ private information, scraped from various government agencies, that could theoretically be used to track or persecute them.

According to the Times:

The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said. Creating detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream. The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases, including their bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims and any disability status. Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics, Democratic lawmakers and critics have said.

The White House did not respond to the Times’ request for comment, and Palantir declined to comment on its work with the Trump administration. It pointed to a company blog post that said organizations that license its products “define what can and cannot be done with their data; they control the Palantir accounts.”...........................

[Bluetus]

1. Trump isn't building anything except his own grifting operations.

But he is surrounded by some of the most evil people ever to walk the earth. And there is every reason to believe that Putin is more in the chain of command than Trump when it comes to national security matters.

[vapor2]

2. Disturbing agenda

but you don't think it will come to be?

[Bluetus]

3. I didn't say that.

I said trump is not driving any of that. He cares only about his drifting.