“Palantir is here to disrupt… And, when it’s necessary,
to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them.”
Palantir: The Dark and
Deadly Side of a Data-mining Giant
Win Without War
(July 8, 2025) — We need to talk about Palantir, the data-mining giant, co-founded by Republican mega-donor Peter Thiel. [1]
After winning a massive $30 million contract with ICE earlier this year, the firm is now helping supercharge Trump’s mass deportation agenda — the very architect of which, Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, owns up to $250,000 in Palantir stock, allowing him to profit while the company builds an Orwellian surveillance system to track people slated for deportation. [2]
The scary truth is, Palantir’s ties with the Trump administration go so much deeper. Our personal bank account numbers, medical claims, student debt amounts, and so much more could soon be accessible to the White House if Trump’s nightmare surveillance state succeeds.
With the help of Palantir, Trump is reportedly amassing “untold surveillance power” through this invasion of privacy that could soon be weaponized to threaten, persecute, attack, and punish dissidents, political opponents, and people of all ilk. [3]
Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Donald Trump.
Trump hasn’t been forced to publicly disclose his grand plans for Palantir. But with enough pressure from Washington, that can change. We can do our part today by sending a message to Congress tens of thousands of people strong, demanding they throw roadblocks at Trump’s data collection power grab and protect our personal privacy.
All of us lose in this Trump-Palantir partnership. The only winners? Palantir’s backers like right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel and its investors like Stephen Miller.
While your privacy is put at risk with Palantir working to compile a massive database full of sensitive, personal information for people living across the country, the firm is raking in tax dollars and seeing its stocks surge.
Since Trump returned to office, Palantir has collected $113 million from the federal government — and that doesn’t even account for an additional $795 million that was just awarded by the Pentagon.
“Palantir is here to disrupt,” CEO Alex Karp recently proclaimed to Palantir investors. “And, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them.” [4]
NO company should have access to this much personal information, especially one as notorious as Palantir, and the consequences could be frightening if Palantir can successfully create intimately detailed profiles of people across the United States.
Trump and Palantir’s surveillance power grab has gone on in the shadows for too long. It’s time for Congress to stop the White House’s mass data collection, stand against the government using AI tools to surveil people with their own personal data, and oppose sending any more taxpayer money to companies like Palantir.‘
Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team
- NPR, “How Palantir, the secretive tech company, is rising in the Trump era”
2. The Independent, “Stephen Miller owns stock in ICE contractor Palantir — a company powering deportations”
3. The New York Times, “Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans”
4. Daily Beast, “Palantir CEO Hails Musk’s DOGE Disruption: ‘Some People Are Going to Get Their Heads Cut Off’”
