you 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.
unprecedented.
So anyway, Theo Vaughn freaks out.
This sounds crazy, dude.
And confronts J.D.
Vance.
It can tell if your kids are going to have a limp or whatever.
He'll be in the Christmas play.
Veep is like, it's going to be OK, 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 to for the US 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, your sources of income, your charitable donations,
all the types of things that many will be familiar with from having filed a tax return before.