Is Palantir’s crystal ball just smoke and mirrors?

The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

“All human relations are a matter of record, ready to be revealed by a clever algorithm. Everyone is a spidergram now.”

“These documents show how Palantir applies Silicon Valley’s playbook to domestic law enforcement. New users are welcomed with discounted hardware and federal grants, sharing their own data in return for access to others’. When enough jurisdictions join Palantir’s interconnected web of police departments, government agencies, and databases, the resulting data trove resembles a pay-to-access social network—a Facebook of crime that’s both invisible and largely unaccountable to the citizens whose behavior it tracks.”