Everything you need to know about Palantir, the secretive company coming for all your data

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an early supporter of Donald Trump and served on the president’s transition team. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images How Palantir and Peter Thiel might lead the biggest tech IPO of the year. In the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic , many of the country’s public health departments, still reliant on fax machines , were woefully unprepared for the massive amounts of data they needed to process. Looking for a tidy private-sector solution to a messy government problem, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paid a shadowy Silicon Valley company with ties to the Trump administration to build something new. That company is called Palantir Technologies,...