Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Sign the petition: Trump hires Thiel to create a master database on every American

TELL CONGRESS: Trump is giving billionaire mega-donor Peter Thiel and his company, Palantir, millions of dollars to collect personal information on Americans. It's an insidious, unprecedented form of mass surveillance in the hands of Trump and his Big Tech donors. Sign the petition: Stop Trump from sending taxpayer dollars to Palantir for mass surveillance!

Harris,

The Trump administration is collecting our personal information — and giving Big Tech company Palantir our tax dollars for this dangerous WH surveillance project.1

Palantir's founder, Peter Thiel, is a billionaire Trump mega-donor. Palantir has received at least $113 million from the federal government since Trump took office in January. Fears are growing that Trump and Palantir are compiling a master list of personal information on Americans that could give Trump "untold surveillance power."2

Congress must call for an end to Trump's insidious surveillance scheme and Thiel's data collection cash grab.

Sign the petition: Stop Trump and Palantir's mass data collection power grab.

Government officials say Palantir's tech could easily merge information from different government agencies — giving Trump a coordinated set of personal data on everyone in America. The data could include hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases, including their bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims, and any disability status.3

Elon Musk's DOGE chose Palantir for this anti-democratic undertaking,4 giving fellow Trump mega-donor Thiel a windfall of cash.

If our elected leaders stand by and do nothing, they will allow the White House to amass unprecedented power and a detailed look into our individual lives. Trump would have all the information he needs to threaten, persecute, attack, and punish all of his political enemies.

Sign the petition: Stop Trump's dangerous escalation in government data collection.

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the team at Demand Progress

Sources:

  1. New York Times, "Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans," May 30, 2025.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Ibid.

 


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