{"id":61473,"date":"2025-07-16T08:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61473"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:12:40","slug":"nylj-this-is-not-science-fiction-trump-administration-uses-peter-thiels-planantir-surveillance-technology-to-spy-on-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61473","title":{"rendered":"NYLJ: &#8216;This Is Not Science Fiction&#8217;: Trump Administration Uses Peter Thiel&#8217;s &#8216;Planantir&#8217; Surveillance Technology to Spy on Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYLJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/2025\/07\/15\/this-is-not-science-fiction-trump-administration-uses-peter-thiels-planantir-surveillance-technology-to-spy-on-americans\/\">&#8216;This Is Not Science Fiction&#8217;: Trump Administration Uses Peter Thiel&#8217;s &#8216;Planantir&#8217; Surveillance Technology to Spy on Americans<\/a> by Bennett L. Gershman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Combined with AI-enhanced systems to identify faces, license plates, social media posts, online purchases, and cellphone metadata, government officials can integrate and cross-reference the information to assess not only someone\u2019s actions, but also their character, including their loyalty to Trump and their danger to the state. To get this massive artificial intelligence job done, and done well, Trump handpicked Thiel\u2019s Palantir. And notably, Palantir was one of the chief sponsors of Trump\u2019s anemic June 14 military parade. Palantir\u2019s software system analyzes huge sets of data to identify connections and patterns, and by utilizing algorithms, integrate the data into a coherent assessment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYLJ: &#8216;This Is Not Science Fiction&#8217;: Trump Administration Uses Peter Thiel&#8217;s &#8216;Planantir&#8217; Surveillance Technology to Spy on Americans by Bennett L. Gershman:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61474,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473\/revisions\/61474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}