Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project

[highplainsdem]

Source: Wired

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.

For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a single API layer above all IRS databases at an event previously characterized to WIRED as a “hackathon,” sources tell WIRED. Palantir representatives have been on-site at the event this week, a source with direct knowledge tells WIRED.

APIs are application programming interfaces, which enable different applications to exchange data, and could be used to move IRS data to the cloud and access it there. DOGE has expressed an interest in the API project possibly touching all IRS data, which includes taxpayer names, addresses, social security numbers, tax returns, and employment data. The IRS API layer could also allow someone to compare IRS data against interoperable datasets from other agencies.

Should this project move forward to completion, DOGE wants Palantir’s Foundry software to become the “read center of all IRS systems,” a source with direct knowledge tells WIRED, meaning anyone with access could view and have the ability to possibly alter all IRS data in one place. It’s not currently clear who would have access to this system.

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

[Ocelot II]

1. What could possibly go wrong?

[yellow dahlia]

8. My thought exactly.

Well one of my thoughts. I can barely get through a thought nowadays without drowning my words in expletives.

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure.

[Blue Dotty]

3. Well now I am creeped out

with these two especially. Thiel and Musk at a mad race for first one to hit Trillionaire. Beyond obvious this is not for the safety and care of the American people. This sentence will give me nightmares tonight; "The IRS API layer could also allow someone to compare IRS data against interoperable datasets from other agencies."
There will be one big report card for each of us now - with health records to boot. Student loans, vital records - and to think some were worried about chips in the vaccines? We chipped ourselves on November 5, 2024.

[dchill]

5. I predict - most of us aren't worth spending even our own...

...assets on. Because, you know, all our money is actually theirs.

[dchill]

4. This all seems perfectly mega-evil.

Oh - and illegal. Not that that's a thing, anymore.

[sakabatou]

6. "A Palantir is a dangerous tool, WH."

"Why should we feat to use it?"

[Fla Dem]

7. And Peter Thiel is JD Vance's sugar daddy.