The data analytics firm Palantir is building a master list of personal information on Americans that could give president Donald Trump immense surveillance power.The president signed an executive order in March calling for the federal government to share data across various agencies, and while he ha...| Raw Story
In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.| NCPR
Just 45 days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a panicked Congress passed, with virtually no debate, the USA Patriot Act. The law amounted to an overnight revision of the nation's surveillance laws that vastly expanded the government's authority to spy on its own citizens, while simultaneously reducing checks and balances on those powers.| American Civil Liberties Union
