
With a name, police can also find a person’s email address, phone numbers, current and previous addresses, bank accounts, social security number(s), business relationships, family relationships, and license information like height, weight, and eye color, as long as it’s in the agency’s database. This can give a complete account of where someone has driven over any time period. If police have a name that’s associated with a license plate, they can use automatic license plate reader data to find out where they’ve been, and when they’ve been there. The capabilities are staggering, according to the guide:
The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives. Motherboard got its hands on Palantir’s Gotham user’s manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement