Overview

• Republicans led by Rep. Warren Davidson warn that merging diverse agency datasets creates a digital ID that history shows could be abused.
• Democrats including Rep. Suzan DelBene and Sen. Ron Wyden express alarm over a central repository of sensitive financial, health and personal information.
• Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls media reports “ridiculous” and insists the company’s platform is the most secure system and is not designed for unlawful surveillance.
• Karp warns that the U.S.-China artificial intelligence arms race will produce a single winner and urges Western allies to follow U.S. corporate leadership in innovation.
• Some lawmakers plan to insert new privacy safeguards into the FISA reauthorization text to curtail Palantir’s access to cross-agency datasets.