Watchdog records show IRS spent $130 million on Palantir since 2018
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Turns out the IRS has been teaming up with Palantir Technologies since 2018 to dig into financial crimes across the US.
The agency has spent about $130 million on Palantir's data-crunching software, using it to sift through huge amounts of financial records and spot suspicious activity.
These details came out thanks to public records obtained by a watchdog group.
Palantir maps connections across federal data
Palantir's platform pulls together data from different federal agencies, mapping connections between people to help investigators probe a variety of financial crimes.
These details came out thanks to public records obtained by a watchdog group.