Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies
Formation	2004
Founder	•  Peter Thiel •  Alex Karp •  Joe Lonsdale •  Stephen Cohen (entrepreneur) •  Nathan Gettings
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California
Type	commercial
Staff	1,500
Interest of	Barrett Brown
Member of	Council on Foreign Relations/Corporate Members, WEF/Strategic Partners

Palantir Technologies is a software company which focuses on mass surveillance and data analysis. It is closely connected to the MICC.

Activities

Palantir has been called "Silicon Valley's Most Secretive Company". and the "War on Terror's Secret Weapon". "Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company’s engineers and products don’t do any spying themselves; they’re more like a spy’s brain, collecting and analyzing information that’s fed in from the hands, eyes, nose, and ears. The software combs through disparate data sources—financial documents, airline reservations, cellphone records, social media postings—and searches for connections that human analysts might miss. It then presents the linkages in colorful, easy-to-interpret graphics that look like spider webs."

Palantir helped create the visual mapping software for XKeyscore, an NSA hacking tool that was disclosed by Edward Snowden.

Ownership

As of December 2014, Peter Thiel was Palantir's largest shareholder.

Military contracts

In 2018, Palantir won a $876 million contract from the US Army.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Civil Liberty Vanishes	blog post	6 May 2020	Craig Murray	"Serious questions have to be asked about why the UK government has developed its own unique app, universally criticised for its permanent central data collection and ability to identify individuals from their unique codes. That this is overseen by NHSX CEO Matthew Gould who held all those secret meetings with Liam Fox and Adam Werritty, including with Mossad, frankly stinks."

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