SCOOP: 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 "mega API," WIRED has learned.
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Palantir is Peter Thiel. Palantir is about espionage and people control. RED FLAGS, MASSIVE RED FLAGS!!!!! The tech bros anti-democracy bought the country really really cheap.
Whats is “HELPING”? These UNAUTHORIZED PEOPLE are stealing OUR SENSITIVE INFO! They are touching what they have NO MANDATE, no authorization to access! WTF, which country is this?
Only reason Skum is involved, so DOGE can get private info for XAI compound in Texas. AI needs detailed govt info to have most powerful data. AI technologies rely on personal data, to power processes: data collection, machine learning, predictive algorithms.
Something that should be discussed is how career engineers are very aware things need updated!!! Shit I had a literal state manager drop a database full of dementia info and everyone chugged along like nothing happened
There are absolutely government processes and programs that are extraordinarily outdated. However, at the same time, it's almost impossible to fully modernize because of all the security considerations
It's easy to modernize when you have a start up mindset and don't care if things break and have a history of building cars that drive themselves somewhat well, except when they're going full speed into other cars, lanes pedestrians, walls, etc
An idea fraught with privacy act peril — not to mention well known mismatches that happen in this kind of merge. Names repeat. Even names and birth dates repeat. Is everything indexed by SSN? If not, huge gaps.
Interesting, assuming it is correct, hard to imagine this is applicable to every single one of programs cut.
The initiative in itself In itself is of course still valid & needed.
I think it is worth pursuing this further, it is not apparent that there is a purposeful intention of misrepresenting
By statute, IRS taxpayer data is confidential (IRC 6103) and, therefore, discrete from other systems. API would undermine this for the inexorable purpose of building external files on every taxpayer. Such dossiers are the bread and butter of oppressive regimes.
Everyone sees where this is going right? Musk is establishing personal control of the systems of government. Thiel owns the VP. You get a cult leader to open all the doors and once that’s done you replace him with your guy. Make it is big scary event and the military and public are yours at the end.
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.
why stop at datasets from other agencies? Why not dump in all of our years of posts on Twitter and Meta too and let AI be the Thought Police. This could determine the political views of nearly every American in a nice, neat govt database. Elon could buy 23andme and throw our genes in, too. Fun!
They are shockingly stupid. The requirements process is incredibly complicated for even one fully functioning department. It's sad, really, to see these egomaniacal douchebags insert themselves in government.
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.
Most of us can do fuck all, but that’s not me saying “don't protest”. Protest like our country is being taken over by hostiles, because it is. Protest like our future depends on stopping fascism taking hold. Scream and yell at legislators not doing their fucking jobs to stop a fascist takeover.
Palantir, X, Starlink, xAI; the US government (payments, communication, surveillance) will run, and be run, through them. It is wholesale tech-oligarch grift.
It means the end of personal freedom in this country until Palantir is burned to the ground, until then, right wing trash will have total surveillance over every aspect of American life from cradle to grave.
DOGE is bad Musky joke. The Doge of Venice was the head of the Republic of Venice, a powerful maritime republic that existed from the 7th century to 1797. The Doge held office for life and served as the ceremonial head of state, representing the Republic in both domestic and international affairs.
The funniest/saddest part is trump is so damn clueless, he is obeying everything the tech bros tell him in the IT world, and Steve Miller, Homan, and Noem in ridding us of immigrants. They explain in the simplest terms and he agrees and reads the EO.
All they have to do is throw him shiny objects and praise him. Sure he’s making money, but they are accumulating something they cover, power. Their money will come. The old guy won’t live forever.
After decades working with and following tech, one thing is clear: it fucking sucks. The next clearest thing is that it sucks even harder when arrogant jackasses make “confident”claims like “we will have this massive project, that we just started, completed in 30 days.”
30 days. Right. Everyone knows implementing something important with speed & half-assery always turns out swell. Every job I've had has new clowns come in, change everything, leave, & then we are left to sort out the mess. No way anyone ever employed voted for Trash. Rich folks are CLUELESS.
They want to build a tracking AI like US companies helped build for Israel to track everyone in Gaza in realtime. Same companies. Same network of genocidal politicians, tech, AI, weapons billionaires.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, I believe Palantir also involved in genocide AI. We, our lives, are their cash cow for business profit: tracking, controlling, imprisoning, hunting us for profit. It is a game for them, we are game to them. https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-google-microsoft/
Musk's friend and co-owner of X Larry Ellison said they want to track us 24/7, have all our govt info, dna in one AI system so we "behave," like we are their products to control. Quadrocopters. Gaza & Uyghur level surveillance of everyone in US. https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/
In Gaza they use govt data, social media, phone; likely Amazon, Google, Microsoft hand over their info too. It's a good idea to #DisengageAndDivest from these companies, delete Amazon Alexa, router, doorbell cam, account; use Librewolf not Chrome, Linux not Microsoft, delete most social media...
Theyre hunting peoples' tattoos via social media using AI, then trafficking them to El Salvador. The extreme sickening carnage in Gaza is partly because an AI machine with a 10% error rate was deciding who to target. We are in an AI apocalypse if these AI-weapons billionaire sociopaths arent stopped
These motherfuckers don’t realize the difference between wiring up an API for a prototype product vs one for a system as complex and critical as SSA. No, their engineers are not that fucking capable!
It's not meant to be sustainable it's meant to give Palentir access to everyone's addresses so ice can do massive neighborhood sweeps. They can probably wire that up quickly.
BREAKING: The IRS “mega API” will centralize all your tax data in the cloud built fast, without competitive bidding, and possibly by Palantir. It’s a hacker’s dream. This isn’t modernization. It’s a national security breach waiting to happen. #MegaAPI #TaxDataAtRisk
I mean we already had a federal pilot program to file taxes that people in some states were able to use, & I am so glad that GOP is just scrapping that work for what appears to be more Meta like surveillance of ppl who pay our taxes along w/ Algos to target mistakes vs the rich.
Dear Palantir... As an #infosec professional at a partner, I will never support you. I promise. The only way that changes is if your company publicly declares your support of Chris Krebs.
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"Should this project move forward to completion, DOGE wants Palantir’s Foundry software to become the “read center of all IRS systems”
We all knew tho didn’t we…
Why else would a billionaire ‘volunteer’ for a govt job?
Access to all our info = $$$$
https://fedscoop.com/radio/the-reshuffle-in-treasurys-it-shop-comes-as-the-irs-cut-about-50-it-staffers-friday/
Who needs full reliability or oversight? 🙄
Great idea, what can go wrong...
All the power focussed in the hands of one unstable, unethical, shameless, greedy, sociopathic criminal human.
The sad thing is that America is literally eating and destroying it's human rights, freedom and enslaving themselves.
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The initiative in itself In itself is of course still valid & needed.
I think it is worth pursuing this further, it is not apparent that there is a purposeful intention of misrepresenting
You've been owned.
Your partner, your kids, ALL owned by Palantir... and whoever they sell the data to.
Here's what that means:
Palantir is Thiel...THIS is Thiel👇🏾
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=PkdURzWkpA6LdCB9
They have stolen all the data just to abuse it. And letting Palantir in will just make things worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/social-security-canceled-immigrants
We are witnessing the biggest heist in history playing out and most Americans are shrugging and saying, what can I do about it?
https://tenor.com/MYpi.gif
"This new system is elitist—“humans fit into dominance-submission structures” Yarvin wrote in 2008; and it’s authoritarian"
https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-essay/
DOGE is just a criminal empire to help their wealthy friends get richer.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/
@markey.senate.gov
Might I add that trump’s personal data is also in this database, as is Musk’s and the rest of this fascist regime.
Man made horror within my comprehension
White supremacists are designing yet another system & forcing us to use it
Bring AMT back NOW!
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