Military contractor Palantir is helping the IRS analyze dozens of different data sets on Americans to investigate a broad range of financial crimes, according to records shared with The Intercept.

Since 2018, the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has used Palantir’s Lead and Case Analytics platform to aggregate and analyze a sprawling list of sensitive federal databases and data sets.

Public records detailing Palantir’s IRS contract, obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight and shared exclusively with The Intercept, reveal the immense volume of data plugged into the military contractor’s software. The LCA uses both Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry applications to facilitate “analysis of massive-scale data to find the needle in the hay stack,” the contract paperwork says.

Documents indicate the IRS has paid Palantir over $130 million for these services to date.

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago

Normally I'd be on board with finding financial crimes but the fact that this is "Trump's IRS" means that the people who need to be caught won't be and people struggling to get by will be

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  • 13 comments in c/privacy@programming.dev view that post
    [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Great. First tax dollars are being used to falsely accost people in the streets, next it'll be the IRS in our homes. I hope your last name isn't Tuttle.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The company’s right-wing politics and eagerness to facilitate U.S. and Israeli military aggression abroad, NSA global surveillance, and ICE deportations has also made many wary of its access to incredibly sensitive personal data. A recent post on the company’s Palantir’s X account summarizing a book by CEO Alex Karp triggered an immediate backlash from those unnerved by the manifesto’s fascistic bent. The bullet points extolled the virtue of arms manufacturing, argued the Axis powers were unfairly punished after World War II, called for a reinstatement of the draft, condemned cultural pluralism, and claimed that wealthy elites are unfairly persecuted.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, these are totally the moves of someone who's going to willingly leave office in 2028./s

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    State execution for Peter Thiel.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    thiel must be pretty desperate, if his AI isnt generating the income he wants.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Man, i sure be loving living in this timeline <3 I WANNA KILL MY FUCKING SELF

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    So they will go after Orange family, right?

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    [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    Pseudocode:

    for individual in users:  
        if individual.net_worth > 1_000_000:  
            skip
    
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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Since 2018.... I dont like Trump personally but mass surveillance, data mining, bypassing legal protections like warrants has been going on for far longer than just Trump. Democrats do this shit too

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    i agree, however: i am personally slightly comforted by their incompetence. i have on one of my old boxes their 2016 voter database. they have entries for every voter, fields for personal identifiers, a code instead of a name but there's enough in there for you to identify yourself or people you know, and variables for a bunch of republicans' specific platform issues (remember when they had a platform more than huffing krasnov's diaper emissions?), along with a key somewhere. their entries for my household were laughably wrong, but i put some effort into obscuring my real identity online. my wife however doesn't and they were way off for her, too. even for the stuff where we differ. i mean we both grew up in conservative cults so their predictive models would presume some weird shit. as much as LLMs hallucinate, I expect the conservative politics LLM (not the billionaire one, that's different somehow i don't know how shut up inner derek) to be like 95% hallucination.

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