Sources: Palantir is helping DOGE build an API layer above all IRS databases; DOGE wants Palantir's Foundry software to be the “read center of all IRS systems”
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers … Bluesky: @wired.com , @wired.com , @emptywheel , @sbyrnes , @techviews , @whodat35 , @couts , and @katie-drummond . Mastodon: @JorisMeys@mstdn.social . X: @wired Forums: r/technology , r/politics , r/feddiscussion , r/fednews , and r/TrueReddit Bluesky: @wired.com : 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. @wired.com : Engineers tasked with finishing the API project are confident they can complete it in 30 days, a source with direct knowledge tells WIRED. @emptywheel : Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. — www.wired.com/story/palant... Sean Byrnes / @sbyrnes : Ah, excellent. DOGE is creating vendor lock-in for our most important government systems, ensuring their friends have perpetual revenues from the government. — No-bid contracts don't sound very efficient. @techviews : Billionaires handing more money to each other's pockets. — #corruption [embedded post] Lee West / @whodat35 : So, where is the government contract specifics for #Palantir? Was it an open or closed bid contract? The company is Helping #DOGE With a Massive #IRS Data Project hackathon. www.wired.com/story/palant... Andrew Couts / @couts : NEW: Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk's DOGE to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. @makenakelly.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/palant... Katie Drummond / @katie-drummond : NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. — @makenakelly.bsky.social — www.wired.com/story/palant... Mastodon: Joris Meys / @JorisMeys@mstdn.social : If anyone ever says “if you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to hide” in privacy discussions ever again... here's two fascists extracting govt info for surveillance and AI training. — https://www.wired.com/... X: @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 “mega API,” WIRED has learned. https://www.wired.com/... Forums: r/technology : Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project r/politics : Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project r/feddiscussion : Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project r/fednews : Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project r/TrueReddit : Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project