government data and surveillance software company

Palantir Technologies

A public data analytics and AI platform company selling government and commercial surveillance infrastructure, with immigration-enforcement and civil-liberties concerns. Palantir Technologies scores low because of documented human harm, coercive violence, and surveillance capture, with extractive economics and centralized governance reinforcing the negative evaluation.

Why this matters: Palantir is a clear test of whether technical brilliance can offset coercive state-surveillance alignment; under this rubric it cannot.

Letter grade F Malignant Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1 Last reviewed May 6, 2026

Final Score -22* F - Malignant

FMALIGNANT-22 pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material9

Bonus+0

Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2

After Cap9

Penalties-31

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Evaluation Overview

F - Malignant

The score turns mainly on Labor Sovereignty, with the largest penalty coming from Human Harm.

Strengths

Labor Sovereignty2/7
Ownership1/10
Governance1/10

Penalties

Human Harm-10
Coercive Violence-8
Surveillance Capture-5
Identity Capture-3

Evidence state

ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
Linked claims15
Direct axis claims15
Coverage15/15

Scoring Axes

Axis	Score	Why this score
Ownership ? Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.	1 / 10	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. That keeps Palantir Technologies low on Ownership: decisive control remains with shareholders, private owners, executives, or state insiders rather than affected people. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 12 scored entries below, 65 tied, 149 above on Ownership. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir is a shareholder-governed public company selling data platforms to government and commercial customers, not a stakeholder-owned institution controlled by affected people. [2]
Governance ? Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.	1 / 10	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 2 scored entries below, 68 tied, 156 above on Governance. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir’s governance is corporate and contract-driven while Amnesty’s ICE concerns show affected migrants and communities lack control over how its systems are used. [3]
Extraction ? Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.	1 / 10	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. That keeps Palantir Technologies low on Extraction: the business model makes extraction from workers, users, suppliers, customers, or the public central rather than incidental. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 2 scored entries below, 17 tied, 207 above on Extraction. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir extracts value by selling high-power data integration and analytics systems to governments and corporations, including contexts where surveillance and enforcement harms fall on vulnerable people. [4]
Labor Sovereignty ? Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.	2 / 7	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. That keeps Palantir Technologies low on Labor Sovereignty: labor remains managerially controlled, replaceable, or exposed to coercive employment and contracting conditions. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 8 scored entries below, 36 tied, 182 above on Labor Sovereignty. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir’s public record concerns government and commercial software contracts, not worker or affected-community sovereignty over the deployment of data systems. [5]
Solidarity with the Unemployed ? Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.	1 / 7	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. That keeps Palantir Technologies low on Solidarity with the Unemployed: the model provides little protection for people who leave, are excluded, or cannot bargain from employment. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 3 scored entries below, 27 tied, 196 above on Solidarity with the Unemployed. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir’s products serve powerful institutional clients rather than unemployed, excluded, or vulnerable people, and Amnesty linked ICE-related use to risk for migrants and asylum seekers. [6]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity ? Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.	1 / 7	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. That keeps Palantir Technologies low on Loss-Bearing Fidelity: losses, hazards, or adjustment costs are routinely pushed onto workers, customers, suppliers, communities, or the public. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 12 scored entries below, 20 tied, 194 above on Loss-Bearing Fidelity. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir’s ICE-related human-rights risk record shows external people can bear the consequences of system deployment while the company captures contract value. [7]
Market Conduct ? Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.	0 / 5	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 14 tied, 212 above on Market Conduct. Linked evidence Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1]
Product Integrity ? Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.	1 / 5	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. That keeps Palantir Technologies low on Product Integrity: the core offering is closely tied to harmful, addictive, deceptive, degrading, or low-integrity product design. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 5 scored entries below, 17 tied, 204 above on Product Integrity. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir’s data platforms have real analytic utility, but the same capabilities enable surveillance, targeting, and immigration-enforcement risk, sharply limiting product-integrity credit. [8]
Scale Integrity ? Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.	1 / 5	Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 14 scored entries below, 16 tied, 196 above on Scale Integrity. Linked evidence context Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers. [1] Palantir’s scale across government, defense, policing, immigration, and commercial analytics can magnify surveillance and coercive-state capacity faster than affected people can contest it. [9]

Penalties

Penalty	Applied	Why this penalty
Human Harm ? Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense, reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to 0.	-10	Amnesty International concluded in 2020 that Palantir had failed to conduct adequate human-rights due diligence around ICE contracts and that there was a high risk Palantir contributed to violations against migrants and asylum-seekers. Amnesty International concluded in 2020 that Palantir had failed to conduct adequate human-rights due diligence around ICE contracts and that there was a high risk Palantir contributed to violations against migrants and asylum-seekers. That warrants a substantial Human Harm penalty because ordinary operation, documented misconduct, or institutional power creates serious injury, deprivation, abuse, or foreseeable human damage. The value is substantial but not at the floor because the linked record shows serious conduct without the strongest aggravating factors on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 24 scored entries below, 6 tied, 196 above on Human Harm. Linked evidence Amnesty International concluded in 2020 that Palantir had failed to conduct adequate human-rights due diligence around ICE contracts and that there was a high risk Palantir contributed to violations against migrants and asylum-seekers. [10]
Coercive Violence ? Direct or institutionally enabled killing, torture, detention abuse, armed repression, forced displacement, violent domination, or nonconsensual crisis-line emergency escalation that exposes callers to confinement or force. Range: -30 to 0.	-8	Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, making Palantir a coercive-enforcement infrastructure provider. Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, making Palantir a coercive-enforcement infrastructure provider. That warrants a limited Coercive Violence penalty because the institution uses, enables, profits from, or materially supports violent domination, detention abuse, war, or armed coercion. The value is limited because the linked record shows a real problem but not one that dominates the profile on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 12 scored entries below, 1 tied, 213 above on Coercive Violence. Linked evidence Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, making Palantir a coercive-enforcement infrastructure provider. [11]
Accountability Opacity ? Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.	-2	Amnesty reported that Palantir did not substantively address questions and concerns about human-rights risks from its ICE contracts. Amnesty reported that Palantir did not substantively address questions and concerns about human-rights risks from its ICE contracts. That warrants a severe Accountability Opacity penalty because material facts, risks, conflicts, ownership, or accountability information are obscured from the public. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 52 tied, 174 above on Accountability Opacity. Linked evidence Amnesty reported that Palantir did not substantively address questions and concerns about human-rights risks from its ICE contracts. [12]
Identity Capture ? Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.	-3	Amnesty and later civil-society criticism center on Palantir systems facilitating identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations against vulnerable people. Amnesty and later civil-society criticism center on Palantir systems facilitating identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations against vulnerable people. That warrants a severe Identity Capture penalty because users, workers, customers, or publics are pressured into identity attachment that protects institutional power. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 12 tied, 214 above on Identity Capture. Linked evidence Amnesty and later civil-society criticism center on Palantir systems facilitating identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations against vulnerable people. [13]
Surveillance Capture ? Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.	-5	Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, describes conduct considered under Surveillance Capture. Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, describes conduct considered under Surveillance Capture. That warrants a severe Surveillance Capture penalty because customers, workers, users, bystanders, or the public are exposed to invasive tracking, biometrics, or behavior scanning. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 12 tied, 214 above on Surveillance Capture. Linked evidence Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, describes conduct considered under Surveillance Capture. [14]
Ideological Disavowal ? Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.	-3	Palantir Technologies's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Palantir Technologies combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with… Palantir Technologies's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Palantir Technologies combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with pronounced claims of neutrality, administrative necessity, national legitimacy, safety, objectivity, or professional expertise. That warrants a severe Ideological Disavowal penalty because the institution presents situated, contested choices as neutrality, expertise, inevitability, safety, or common sense. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Ideological Disavowal 0 to -3 recalibration: 0 for explicit standpoint or no penalty-level neutrality theater; -1 for bounded softening of contested choices; -2 for strong neutrality theater by a powerful institution; -3 for major gatekeeping or coercive power presented as neutral, necessary, objective, or non-ideological. Uncertainty This recalibration uses public self-presentation and profile evidence; later review should add direct language-analysis evidence for high-impact institutions. Linked evidence Palantir Technologies's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Palantir Technologies combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with pronounced claims of neutrality, administrative necessity, national legitimacy, safety, objectivity, or professional expertise. [15]

Bonus Credits

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Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 78/100

15 verified linked claims 15 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 15/15 components covered

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Claim confidence 14/20

15 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

15 direct claims across 15 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

15/15 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending

VerificationUnverified

ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)

ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)

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Claims and Sources

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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

1Palantir sells data integration, analytics, and AI platforms to government and commercial customers.

Market Conduct Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 6, 2026

AI scaffold

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%

2Palantir is a shareholder-governed public company selling data platforms to government and commercial customers, not a stakeholder-owned institution controlled by affected people.

Ownership Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

3Palantir’s governance is corporate and contract-driven while Amnesty’s ICE concerns show affected migrants and communities lack control over how its systems are used.

Governance Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

4Palantir extracts value by selling high-power data integration and analytics systems to governments and corporations, including contexts where surveillance and enforcement harms fall on vulnerable people.

Extraction Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

5Palantir’s public record concerns government and commercial software contracts, not worker or affected-community sovereignty over the deployment of data systems.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

6Palantir’s products serve powerful institutional clients rather than unemployed, excluded, or vulnerable people, and Amnesty linked ICE-related use to risk for migrants and asylum seekers.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

7Palantir’s ICE-related human-rights risk record shows external people can bear the consequences of system deployment while the company captures contract value.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

8Palantir’s data platforms have real analytic utility, but the same capabilities enable surveillance, targeting, and immigration-enforcement risk, sharply limiting product-integrity credit.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

9Palantir’s scale across government, defense, policing, immigration, and commercial analytics can magnify surveillance and coercive-state capacity faster than affected people can contest it.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 12, 2026

Palantir websiteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

10Amnesty International concluded in 2020 that Palantir had failed to conduct adequate human-rights due diligence around ICE contracts and that there was a high risk Palantir contributed to violations against migrants and asylum-seekers.

Human Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 6, 2026

AI scaffold

Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

11Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, making Palantir a coercive-enforcement infrastructure provider.

Coercive Violence Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 6, 2026

AI scaffold

Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

12Amnesty reported that Palantir did not substantively address questions and concerns about human-rights risks from its ICE contracts.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 6, 2026

AI scaffold

Amnesty Palantir briefing PDFGeneral web source · 58%

13Amnesty and later civil-society criticism center on Palantir systems facilitating identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations against vulnerable people.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 6, 2026

AI scaffold

Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty UK Palantir NHS concernsGeneral web source · 58%

14Amnesty International reported high human-rights risk from Palantir systems used in ICE-related identification, tracking, and immigration-enforcement operations, describes conduct considered under Surveillance Capture.

Surveillance Capture Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 6, 2026

AI scaffold

Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

15Palantir Technologies's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Palantir Technologies combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with pronounced claims of neutrality, administrative necessity, national legitimacy, safety, objectivity, or professional expertise.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 9, 2026

AI scaffold

Palantir Technologies official siteGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty Palantir briefingGeneral web source · 58%
Amnesty USA Palantir press releaseOfficial self-description · 68%

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