Terri Gross also had an interview with  Bloomberg reporter Chafkin's book about Peter Thiel who founded Palantir, which does data mining and works with using our past " locations on our phones" , "when we log into social media", "to identify our individual details, which are then sold to government agencies and corporations"

Fresh Air For Sept. 21, 2021: Who Is Tech Billionaire And 'Contrarian' Peter "Thiel? 

"data collection and analysis and software to manipulate the data,"

"he's sold it to the military, intelligence agencies and increasingly private companies." "