Americans of Reddit, what are your thoughts on Palantir, the private company owned by Peter Thiel having complete unfiltered access to all information on all US citizens?
Americans of Reddit, what are your thoughts on Palantir, the private company owned by Peter Thiel having complete unfiltered access to all information on all US citizens?
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Schrecklich.
Fuck him and all his techbro buddies.
Put that in your database, du wixxe.
I work with Palantir at work. I find them pretty incompetent and their software poor.
Their CEO is a nutjob.
I put $1k in them a year ago, and pulled out when i found out who the CEO was. Had I kept it I’d have $4k today, so I put $4k this week back into them to hopefully lose it all as they fold. Or if not, make some back since they keep getting government contracts.
As a 30 year IT veteran, and a 7 year army veteran, I can 100% assure you that just because the government or military use some software, that does not mean its any good, and its far more likely to be very poor in quality.
EDIT; Oh, and how do I feel about them having all info on US citizens? Well, that info is already around thanks to social media and corporate user tracking, so it is just consolidating stuff. Maybe it’ll make us all get off social media some day whenever you can’t even complain about somebody without fear of “disappearing” into some prison in El Salvador.
I assume that with the data DOGE stole (seems like really the only thing they were there to accomplish) the DB is already well under way and is being tied to every CRM known to man even as we speak.
I expect several laws are being broken and this is going to come to a screaching halt and indictments will come out after that.
He groomed some hillbilly twink into the vice president of the US.
I feel like he’s probably going to get away with whatever he’s doing. I’d prefer he didn’t. But there’s rarely any real justice in this world.
It’s bad
They fucking hijacked a Tolkien name for nefarious purposes. Thiel is making the world a much worse place.
Edit: a word
That not enough Americans even know about this.
Knowing who the CEO is and what his views are.
Its terrifying.
Having read what they are doing in Palestine, I have no words for how much this worries me.
It’s all a big game, Elon came in to do his stuff now He’s back out acting like he don’t like what’s going on and theil does his part now with the information.
If you don’t know who Peter Theil is and how he thinks, Behind The Bastards podcast did a very comprehensive series on him. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-how-peter-thiel-became-the-gravedigger/id1373812661%3Fi%3D1000674838937&ved=2ahUKEwj1iJPy6NqNAxWbAjQIHY82DhcQFnoECAoQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw0G8o3MSPpbUGv2NvO53Jp3
fascist fucking bullshit.
We are all made fools of a Took
I hate it, I don’t know what I can do about it.
It’s in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment, and whoever is responsible needs to be arrested and charged immediately …
Afrikaners Musk and Theil are Afrikaners. ‘Nuf said.
I think a whole lot of people are in a whole lot of danger. I just hope I get a quick death but I’m not that foolish to dream
Roughly the same thoughts I have on the 34 time convicted felon rapist who bankrupted 4 casinos being POTUS.
Roughly the same thoughts I have on the world’s richest Nazi being given carte blanche to take an axe to social safety nets.
Roughly the same thoughts I have on an alcoholic Fox News host being SecDef.
Need I go on? Idiocracy wasn’t meant to be a documentary, and 1984 wasn’t supposed to be a how-to manual. 2025 was the first time in my life I could say that I was legitimately ashamed to be an American.
We are ruined. This is the worst idea in history…..as is lots of the current mess from this administration (searching social media for folks who are anti-american?)
Id get banned from reddit for stating what I actually think lol
Thiel is a piece of garbage and this whole thing is a travesty. Losers who got made fun of in highschool now taking it out on all of us. So sick of this scumbag assholes.
This is top level scary shit
Can’t say I didn’t absolutely see it coming. It’s all written in P2025. At my age and with my lack of any real obligations all I gotta do is stay outta the dissenter camps. If that means I gotta go live in the woods again then so be it. These conservatives love Ruby Ridge so much they better be ready to play when they come for me.
Conservatives are inexplicably super supportive of a massive surveillance apparatus.
Let us be realistic – the Federal government was hacked last year, I believe, and all of our sensitive information has been on the dark web since then. All of it for sale to the highest bidder.
Every other week, someone is stealing all of our data from a bank, passwords to accounts, or through phishing/spam infecting phones and PCs at an alarming rate.
Then, the Doritos Locos Taco gets into office and allows Elon Musk to literally go around and steal all the information that every governmental department had on you, upload it to his own servers, and walk away. A private citizen was given the ability to do that.
If you think, for one second, that anyone in DC cares about your right to privacy, protecting your health records, or anything else, you are sorely mistaken.
Peter Thiel can use some of his money to just go buy the data and create a master database from there.
Should be unconstitutional & definitely seems illegal. Definitely also seems like a privacy rights violation assuming that still exists. Of course the president & his cronies are probably exempt so they don’t care. My main concern is what if they get hacked due to lousy security & peoples personal info gets leaked to the dark web? We all remember the Equifax breach. People have already had experienced identity theft because of it & people didn’t even have any affiliation with that company but somehow they got peoples SSNs & other personal data & had it stored on unsecure servers. I think there should be at least some level of consent to giving away personal data to such a system.
I think Peter Thiel is a soft, blowhard narcissist with sociopathic tendencies.
He is terribly afraid of dying and throws billions of dollars into anti-aging technologies, no matter how stupid.
He is another weak nerd who thought he was special.
Bill Burr said it best. “Why the fuck are afraid of the people we gave wedgie to in high school now?”
I think Peter Thiel and Alex Karp both need a fucking swirlie. Curtis Yarvin should be strung up the flagpole by his underwear.
As far as their access to my info, I mean, fucking do something about it? I’m already fucked and mostly have nothing to lose anyway.
Fuck them.
Why should we trust anything associated with Peter Thiel?? Under what Congressionally authorized and appropriated legal basis is this taking place??
It’s a vile company owned by a massive POS who cosplays as a human.
They already had it. I toured their company around 20years ago, they were already importing data from private companies, they already had govt contracts and likely had access to govt data, and I’d be shocked if they didn’t have connections to a bunch of cia data vacuums.
I dont think anything has changed except now they are making it public. And I’m guessing it’s to make it easier to use the data in court cases.
We are in fascist hell thanks to a largely uneducated populace
I’m concerned, but not because of Thiel, Palantir themselves, nor their CEO. I’m concerned because they’re drafting the blueprints on how to capture a government, consolidate all their data, and build a profiling-purposed database that reaches across spectrums.
Palantir is going to fuck it up, 100% certainty there. However, whomever follows after them or even in parallel with them is going to end up hacking them, having a functional enough database of Americans and everything known about them, and that entity will almost certainly end up selling said data to crime bosses who operate in the dark (blackmail, extortion, ransom, etc).
American tech is laughably insecure as it is, but that’s mainly because it is all fractured and fragmented and mostly useless without assembly. Palantir is going to assemble it (or try) and even if they fail, someone else out there won’t. That’s the part that alarms me. Add in the fact they are incorporating unreliable AI agents? It’s the ultimate accident waiting to happen.
That company will be the death of us all but before that the returns to the investors will be phenomenal
Can we revolt yet?
Something very bad needs to happen to the owner of that company.
That man is evil. That company is evil. Anyone who shrugs it off is fucking stupid.
You know how sometimes people frame a question to tell people how they should you feel?
I hate it, and have no choice.
One of the most scary things going w our govt right now. I’ve deleted all social media accounts outside of Reddit and TikTok and not sure how long I’ll keep these
do non-Americans think its not their info either? crazy to think Prism was early 2000’s.
Thiel thinks the world should be run like a corporation. NRx crap. He keeps a low profile because when he opens his mouth it’s too easy to tell that he is a sociopath. He also thinks he and his tech bro stooge buddies are such geniuses that they deserve to rule over the working class and decide what we all deserve. Thats probably why they want to buy Greenland, to create some sort of dystopian tech-state.
So, to answer the question: he is one of the worst people in the world to give this sort of information to. He has no empathy for human beings and would prefer we all die if it makes things better for him. I’m not a fan.
Thiel is way worse than his former business pal Musk
It sucks for ANYONE to have our private information.
Well the secret police will need information to start gathering up the non-compliant people.
Palantir scares the shit out of me
It’s creepy and evil. Tolkien would 100% disapprove of his creative name being used for a bunch of glorified spyware that’ll likely be used to create a police state oppressive enough to make Big Brother blush.
Incredibly dumb people I know think these robber barons are doing everything they can for them. I’ve never seen this level of delusion in my life.
I think in the end it will be good. They’ll gut every good program, squeeze every penny out of us and America will fall. We’ve been at war 93% of our history. We’re the number 1 source of chaos around the world. It’s time we fall.
And the Republican Party is leading this charge
Thiel sponsored and mentored JD Vance into what he is today Its infuriating that this company can have access to our data
I had a job interview with them. They had all the tech goodies they think is a green flag but is actually a massive red flag. Like a dorm room in case you need a nap, because working so long is expected. Free beer so you don’t have happy hour but just drink while working. That kind of thing. Never in my life expected to hear about them again.
Their tech was built for the CIA/Intel community to target and track people and networks around the world. Take what you want from that.
The people who are surprised by this have not been paying attention. Snowden warned us in 2013. It is super illegal, but I am not surprised that this happened. Fuck Thiel and everyone who voted for this. Free Palestine.
It’s a public company. Thiel owns 4.5% of the company, but his shares do have 10x voting power over class A shares.
It’s death to America.
1984 was a novel ahead of its time. There were people who read it went about their own business. There were other people who read it and decided to make it a reality.
Those who do not work for shaping their tomorrow, live in the reality of the ones who work to shape their tomorrow.
The real question is if Republicans are so anti gay then why peter thiel get a pass.
Hmmm…
Fucking gross and I don’t feel like I consented though I probably did because I never read T&Cs.
Doesn’t matter doge has already let the Russians in.
They have too much privileged information and too much power. Reset em.
Peter Theil is a Bond villain set to ruin the world in his image.
LONG LIVE GAWKER!!!
Seems like a blatant violation of the fourth amendment imo:
>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, an no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Unbridled fury.
FRIGHTENING!
There isn’t a single thing happening in our government that is acceptable right now.
It not good
I will be on June 14th, in Chicago, at the Daley Center from 12-2, for the No Kings Rally!
When and where are the rallies being held in your area?
Im so depressed about it. I cant believe I live in such a lame cyberpunk dystopia run by the biggest lamest saddest loser nerds. I struggle for a reason to see tomorrow.
We are fucked and angry but lost the whole game in November and have had a few months to be drunk about it now.
Other people have more thoughtful answers so I’ll just say
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO. BOOOOOO. Don’t want.
Not just American, they’re burrowing into UK NHS and Ministery of Defence
They are a horrible company and a big part of network states. Fuck Peter thiel
Glad us Canadians narrowly escaped naked fascism again
I’m frustrated that we’ve all been trying to tell MAGA that what DOGE is doing is bad/dangerous, and frustrated that it had to get this far for them to start being like, “On no, did we support bad thing? Did we get scammed?”
Why is the party of small govt trying to be Big Brother?
palantir one of the shadiest companies i can think of. incredible market cap but no ordinary person knows what they do.
Peter Thiel is the actual villain in the US right now. He owns JD Vance, he owns Trump, and he is not a believer in democracy. He’s also the closest thing to an actual vampire, as he receives regular blood transfusions from younger people in pursuit of extending his own life (the science behind which is dubious at best).
Going to make the job so much easier for the brownshirts when they come for you! Efficiency after all is a hallmark of the fascists
It’s fascism. Yeah I know it’s an over used term often used poorly but cataloging info on citizens without any crime or threat in some way?
It’s a fucking evil company
In a proper world Peter Thiel would be considered a domestic terrorist; an enemy of the people.
Not cool. But I figure Thiel already knows how I feel about it.
The idea of them having unfiltered access to all info on every American sets off a few alarm bells for a lot of people. Some folks say, if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to worry about But come on that’s a slippery slope. Nobody likes the idea of some private company, especially one so cozy with the government, just sifting through your personal info like it’s no big deal. Plus, mistakes happen and people get flagged for dumb stuff. Or there’s bias in the system. And suddenly you’re in a mess you didn’t even see coming. At the same time, others argue that companies like Palantir do help with national security. That’s valid too but there should be a clear the line about that.
I don’t care who owns the company, nobody should have complete unfiltered access to all my info but me.
Same thoughts I had 5 years ago…
These people want a dedicated, hardline police state where anyone who’s not an oligarch is an indentured servant. This is not hyperbole, they want 99% to be working class, stuck in debt to the corporations that own the state, so that they can guarantee profits for generations. It’s a complete regression toward legalizing slavery again, just with extra steps and corporate ownership instead of private.
One of the things they need in order to achieve this, is a way to privately monitor all citizens, without any legal recourse for private citizens being able to see whats in that data.
It’s pure evil, late stage capitalism at its finest, and it’s a practical inevitability if we don’t fire almost everyone in congress (50% are with it, 25-30% are complacent) over the next 4-6 years.
I hope it tanks their stock price
Horrific and dangerous.
I personally hold the nihilistic point of view that my information is already in enough places that it doesn’t really bother me that someone else has it. With that being said, it’s still bullshit, but from the perspective of being “scared.” Why should I be? The change needs to come from electing competent and ethical leaders, trying to control the flow of data itself is a losing battle, like sticking your finger in the dam while it crumbles.
I hate it. This was always the natural evolution of the Patriot Act.
Were you expecting some responses of enthusiastic support or were you just mining for karma?
In a word: Horrified
Privacy has been dead since the 70’s.
Is no one going to point out that they are a public company not a private company?
As opposed having all of my information owned by China through Tik Tok, Zuckerberg through Meta and Instagram, or Sergy and Larry through Google?
Feels about the same.
Anybody have a map of Palantir’s data centers? Would love to arrange a field trip. Would be a highly educational experience.
I hate almost every fucking thing that is going on in my country right now. I have two choices and I chose the wimpy one. Shut-up and and try to ride it out.
It was a matter of time
The Dark Web already stole all my information. It’s ok. ‘Palantir’ is a dumb word.
Democrats will take control of Congress next year and Palantri will be busted into tiny pieces
Conservatives love licking that boot
I think my own country has beaten me down so bad at this point that I’m just numb to it all. Probably their plan this whole time
I assume that what I write here will eventually inevitability be seen by someone, or some AI, at some point, at Palantir. Whether in the near term, or in the somewhat (semi) distant future.
Which is good, because I want Peter Theil brought from his happy slumber over there on Dipshit Lane with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here…with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey sh*t he is! Hallelujah!
Go to hell Peter.
Holy sh*t, where’s the Tylenol?
Palantir is evil. They enable warrantless wiretaps
That we’re fucked. That’s nothing new, though. We’ve been fucked at least since Nixon.