Mark Gagnon argues that Palantir is a surveillance apparatus used by governments that thrives on creating and managing crises.

“Every new crisis, terrorism, you know, pandemics, border patrol crossings. It drives more government demand for Palanteer and its tools.”

Joey Avery believes Palantir creates a dangerous environment where governments are empowered to treat citizens like chess pieces for surveillance.

“It like kind of maps people like chess pieces where it's like if I go at this person, this person's over here that will probably come to their defense because he's literally been talking to this person for weeks and we have these phone records.”