Palantir CEO defends surveillance tech as US government contracts boost sales

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/palantir-ceo-defends-surveillance-tech-us-government-contracts-boost-sales-2026-02-02/

42 Comments

  1. Haunterblademoi on

    Of course he’s going to defend it; after all, it’s his project and he has to get as much benefit as possible from the surveillance.

  2. I don’t think any CEO’s claims of “safeguards” against government overreach are in any way believable. You could at least trust him if he said they’d try their best to keep it secret.

  3. Morally bankrupt scumbag who wants to get more wealth and power through immoral means for immoral ends.

  4. PublicFurryAccount on

    People have bought into Palantir’s narrative so hard. A bunch of their stuff is Salesforce marketed to the defense industry but worse. Much worse, going by the reports I get from people who worked there.

  5. -S-P-E-C-T-R-E- on

    He’s basically a really bad version of Elliot Carver with a spyware company instead of a news outlet.

  6. Obvious_Tree3605 on

    Imagine your surveillance company really taking off during a time when the company’s country of operation is run by an across-the-board foreign-compromised administration.

  7. “No guys, you don’t understand. We have to build a system for government surveillance so we can *stop* the government from surveiling you.”

  8. They provide the database to help with ICE an their facial recognition and real
    Time heat maps. They also use surveillance cameras and the flock cameras in their database

  9. Love these anti-government/anti-tax “conservatives” making bank off government contracts for software that invades everyone’s privacy.

  10. The cancers to the USA and the world right now: Trump. Musk. Palantir. The entire GoP. Think how much better off the entire world would be right now without all of them 🤦🏽‍♂️

  11. MotherFunker1734 on

    This is the guy who said he has conversations with real nazis and that he agreeds with them?

    I’m not making this up, look for that interview…

  12. I hope there’s a real discussion during the 2028 Presidential primaries about ending government contracts with companies like Palantir and SpaceX

  13. ghostofculpeper on

    I want to see a politician not only run on dissolving all government contracts from Palantir but to also demand the destruction of all servers in order to delete all our stolen personal information. Fuck this company and fuck anyone who invests in them. We will seek retribution.

  14. Strict-Carrot4783 on

    Alex Karp is a major threat to freedom, stability and the overall wellness of our species. He needs to go.

  15. Rich scumbag defends scumbag actions to fund his umpteenth house boat because the last one didn’t compensate enough.

  16. Captain Obvious reporting: sociopath CEO defends his main source of income, irrespective of ability to provide logical arguments in such defense.

  17. Yeah, Karp is an evil supervillain.

    Like, right out of the comics, and not even shy about it.

  18. Of course he does, he is in record of believing only super-rich white people have the right to freedom and privacy and everyone else should work birth to death to maximize value for society

  19. I mean.. When you name your company after an evil object from a fantasy series 🤷‍♂️

  20. Civil_Pain_453 on

    I’m sure this ceo and all other billionaires will not be followed. Guess it would list them all as pedophile enablers, supporters and or practitioners. Guess that will stay a secret