How Palantir Conquered the World

Imagine a company that knows everything about everyone. A company that is equally at ease helping banks identify fraud as it is helping intelligence agencies track down enemies of the state. A company that can combine pictures of you with cell phone location data, emails you’ve written, health records, credit card purchases and thousands of other pieces of electronic data to paint an intimate portrait of your life that any would-be investigator can pull up with a few keystrokes. A company that can target you anywhere in the world at any time.