Regarding Palantir, the strategy behind it is that high-tech solutions are the least intrusive. Taking your shoes off at the airport to prevent bombs is a degrading retarded low-tech boomer "solution". That is the alternative to an efficient data-analysis system.

Palantir is not necessarily synonymous with surveillance. The word "Palantir", from Lord of The Rings, referred to crystal balls created by the Elves and were tools intended for communication which ended up being used for evil by Sauron. A tool's existence is morally ambiguous.

I don't believe we have to choose between radical personal privacy (owning/controlling our own health records, managing sub-identities on the internet or in real life securely, getting rid of the internet advertising model (which is likely by far the largest provider of personal information to intelligence agencies via Silicon Valley), owning your own data, etc.) and reasonable protective measures by companies and governments. It remains complicated.