The Federal Data Dragnet Just Got an Upgrade

The architecture of public trust is being rebuilt with parts scavenged from the surveillance state.

Long corridor in a data center lined with rows of brightly lit server racks emitting blue, red, yellow, and green indicator lights under fluorescent ceiling lights.

Somewhere in the damp sub-basement of the federal government’s soul, the machines have been humming louder. They’re not building roads or fixing water systems or teaching kids to read. No, these machines, powered by Palantir Technologies and greased with taxpayer cash, are crunching data, your data.

In the latest twist of the bureaucratic noir saga that is the surveillance renaissance, the government has decided that silos are passé. Separate data systems are inefficient.

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