Palantir Planned Database Risks Taxpayer Info, Democrats Say (1)

Democrats are demanding answers from data analysis and technology firm Palantir Technologies Inc. on what lawmakers say will be a governmentwide “mega-database” with taxpayer information for federal agencies.

Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), along with eight other lawmakers, sent a letter to Palantir Tuesday questioning its expansion of government contracts under the Trump administration.

A searchable database with taxpayer information that could be shared with other federal agencies would raise a host of legal issues, potentially violating disclosure and privacy laws, the lawmakers said. The Trump administration has already sought to make ...