People ask what Palantir does.

It's very simple. They act within a public-private partnership to spy on the American public on behalf of the U.S. government without warrants and using extremely intrusive methods while giving the government plausible deniability that the government itself isn't infringing on civil liberties, that a private company instead is doing it, even though it is at the government's direction and funding.

Everyone involved with it, including Peter Thiel, belongs in prison for a very, very long time.