Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/

Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED.

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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I've never felt better about denying that Palantir internship in 2010. Chances are I would have become a fully embedded psychopath by this point.

Blackout@fedia.io · 24 pts · 1y

But you could have gotten in the good vault.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y

Palantir is straight-up evil.

Blackout@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

One change they suggested was to limit the audits performed each year to one. A single person whose name was drawn at random gets an intensive Mega-Audit™

TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Weight the chance of being drawn by wealth and give Mega-Fines to offenders and I'd be down for it

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Ha ha, good one.

AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

They probably will, but in ascending order.

pdxfed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Lobby to get rid of government bureaucracy like Theil so you can have your delivery boy get you the info so you can sell it. Ideal.