Is palantir just a unifying api to google search history emails and Facebook messages and activities? I’m guessing it’s a query, background job, data request to these traitorous citizen civil liberty betraying American companies, comes back unifies the data set then allows you to run a needle haystack search on it?

Or like tableau- just connects a bunch of disparate databases that normally are very hard to connect and makes it easier to get relevant data. If every county has a different format for storing data on streetlight purchases, but there has been a code update on what makes them safe palantir tries to make it so one person can search for how many and where streetlights need to be replaced without calling up every county and writing custom scripts to parse 100s of DBMS's.

I know this example is less exciting than spying on everyone but despite how they try to hype it up it's a lot more realistic use case.

The suck up everything. Probably also got all the gov't restricted data from DOGE. The gov't does store vast amounts of encrypted comms to decrypt later in secret datacenters. And then there's prism. They are afraid of normal people, its McCarthy hunting Reds while high on coke raised to the next power