Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon admitted on Sunday that he would be much more vocal about privacy concerns surrounding Palantir, the technology company currently rationing data on US citizens for the federal government, if a Democrat led the position.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March asking for comprehensive data between federal agencies, which the New York Times reported in May includes the IRS, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Education and the ICE.

The report raised serious concerns about government surveillance powers and personal privacy rights. Palantir went to the article on Monday, calling him “reckless and irresponsible” and full of “false accusations”, and stating that civil liberties are “in the center of our mission.”

“Some of Palantir’s things that are going up now, I think everyone has to step back,” said Bannon on “Sunday night with Chuck Todd”, whose homonymous host asked how Bannon would feel if a Democratic administration fused these databases.

“I think ‘War Room’ would open all the shows about it,” replied the strategist and host of Podcasts of the extreme right. “We are quite upset about that. The Maga base is not happy. And Palantir is a democratic company.”

Bannon helped significantly to launch Cambridge Analytica, the consulting firm presented in 2018 for having reaped the data of millions of Facebook users to influence voters in the 2016 elections, but now it is echoing the privacy guards and civil liberty organizations.

Palantir was co-founded by the Pro-Trump Peter Thiel technological billionaire and has received more than $ 113 million in federal expenses since January and a $ 795 million contract with the Department of Defense in May, according to the Times report.

“President Donald Trump signed an executive order to eliminate information silos and optimize data collection in all agencies to increase government efficiency and save dollars from taxpayers won with so much effort,” said White House spokesman, Taylor Rodgers, to Newsweek in June, although without confirming the company he took advantage of the effort.

The declared objective of simply improving pre -existing access to these data has not convinced skeptics, however, with social networks users who warn that a “master database” will inevitably be armed against citizens who “dare to dissent,” and “must be rejected by all.”

Trump and Thiel, shaking his hand during a meeting with technology executives in December 2016.
Trump and Thiel, shaking his hand during a meeting with technology executives in December 2016.

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Cody Venzke, main policy advisor to the American Union of Civil Liberties, argued so much in April.

“The final concern is a panoptic of a single federal database with everything that the government knows about each person in this country,” he told Wired. “What we are seeing is probably the first step to create that centralized file in all in this country.”

Numerous Palantir employees who spoke with the Times in May said they are “bewildered” by the project, warning that a master database could be “vulnerable” if they are pirate. Bannon, although it is certainly not the voice of reason on other issues, has a more serious vision.

“They are technofeudalist,” he told Todd. “They believe in networks, not in national states.”