When the CIA is your first and only customer for three years, your mission is clear: bypass constitutional limits and normalize dragnet intelligence. This is how privacy dies, not with public debate but with quiet contracts and venture capital from Langley. If Palantir keeps expanding into policing, financial data, and even health records, the line between government spying and private industry disappears completely.
Yes, the CIA’s fingerprints are all over Palantir’s origins:
— In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm, provided early seed funding in the mid-2000s, making Palantir one of the rare startups born with direct intelligence backing.
— From 2005 to 2008, the CIA was Palantir’s only…
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Private corporations or individuals can be held accountable for violating privacy protections afforded by the 4th amendment per 42 U.S. Code 1983 – Civil action for deprivation of rights.
