With a little help from Peter Thiel's controversial company Palintir, America's Department of Health and Human Services is building a powerful new tool to track the spread of the coronavirus. The Verge reports:The article notes Palantir is controversial "in part because it has provided profiling tools to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and because it generally operates with extreme secrecy and with little oversight regarding the tools and data it provides to military operations, governments , and hedge funds."Earliest this year Palantir claimed the #4 spot on Slate's list of the 30 most evil tech companies , because, they wrote, "almost everyone distrusts Peter Thiel."