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Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.

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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Why are you doing evil work..? Like... Why develop these tools that will so obviously be used to worsen our lives?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I've been working mostly on the analysis side of things, currently I do this for a consumer goods company.

    And yes I do it to make a living. Got hired as an analyst in this field out of MBA and stayed in this. Also being chronically online and familiar with social networks helped.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    Gotta eat. Blame the system that creates this incentive not some individual wageslave

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Like ICE

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I feel like there's a big difference between snatching people off the street and making ad targeting smarter. Yeah they both suck, but orders of magnitude here.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes of course, but the excuse is the same

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can use a knife to open a box or open a person. Are these things the same because I used the same tool?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I'm not American so I don't know the tools ICE uses and if social listening or whatever it is called is one of those tools. But if your reasoning for opening the box and the reasoning for opening the person is the same.. well it's the same. Different outcomes, same reason

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I agree but at the same time, in a different thread who's topic specifically is shaming a company for working on the white house, people are foaming from their mouths that someone is working for Trump and downvote anyone who disagrees. The double standard is just mine blowing.

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