According to investigative journalist Whitney Webb, Palantir is "the new Jeffrey Epstein".

"If they want to blackmail you... they just access what Palantir sucked up about you—your search history, your communications, your finances, tweets you've liked in the past, all sorts of things."

"You don't really need Epstein in the surveillance era."

"The disturbing thing about Palantir is that it's really about pre-crime. They were the pioneers of predictive policing."

"Palantir is the resurrection of [a] DARPA program called Total Information Awareness—that was so scandalous when it was announced it was defunded by Congress."

"But then they realised that if they turned it into a private company, no one would complain."

"And that's how we got Palantir."