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Does Palantir Run Surveillance on Americans?

September 09, 2025 / 01:36

This episode discusses Palunteer's data collection practices, specifically addressing concerns about surveillance of American citizens. The conversation includes clarifications on the company's policies and past requests from the government.

The guest explains that Palunteer does not surveil U.S. citizens and has never participated in creating a Muslim database, despite past requests from a Democratic administration. The guest emphasizes that the technology is designed to protect civil liberties.

Concerns about the potential abuse of technology are acknowledged, with the guest asserting that Palunteer is not involved in any activities that would compromise civil liberties.

The episode also touches on the company's interactions with foreign governments, stating that Palunteer has never worked with adversarial nations like China or Russia.

TLDR

Palunteer clarifies it does not surveil U.S. citizens or create databases, despite government requests.

Episode

1:36
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One of the criticisms or concerns that I hear on the right or from civil libertarians is that Palunteer has a
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large-scale data collection program on American citizens. So, not foreign terrorists, not illegals, but American
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citizens. Can you just clear that up and say that either Palunteer is not doing that or under what circumstances you do?
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We had a a Democratic administration come to us and basically ask us to do a Muslim database. Now, you would think
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given the way I'm kind of bismerched as like some kind of I don't know, it's like a Jewish conspiracy. That would be
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the first thing according to them I would do. We've never done anything like this. I've never done anything like
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this. Any technology that works can be abused. We are the single worst technology to use to abuse civil
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liberties, which is, by the way, the reason why we could never get the NSA or the FBI to actually buy our product. And
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if you're online watching, I don't know, Nick Fuentes, Call Me the Jewish Conspiracy, do yourself a favor and say,
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"Yeah, that could be really interesting." Spend 20 minutes looking at the product. 20 minutes looking at
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the product and say, "Is this not the hardest product to abuse in the world? Is it not built to be the And by the
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way, that's made me very rich." But to your questions, no, we are not surveilling uh US citizens. No, our data
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is not being used to aggregate and to create uh imputed uh way because you could say do you do it directly? Do you
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do it indirectly? That's a fair question. No, we never worked with China. We never worked with Russia. We
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never worked with adversarial. We got laughed out of the same room. And by the way, it's cost Palunteer a lot of

Episode Highlights

  • Palunteer's Data Collection Defense
    The speaker refutes claims of surveilling American citizens and explains their technology's integrity.
    “No, we are not surveilling US citizens.”
    @ 01m 13s
    September 09, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • Is this not the hardest product to abuse in the world?
    Does Palantir Run Surveillance on Americans?
  • No, we are not surveilling US citizens.
    Does Palantir Run Surveillance on Americans?

Key Moments

  • Surveillance Clarification01:13