Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

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[+] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh no, not "the" government of "the" nation

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Stock reddits were hyping it up before wallstreetbets blew up, like the year before some of the california wildfires and cvoid actually

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This was bad enough for the public sector but giving this task away to evil Silicon Valley billionaires is incredibly stupid.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s amazing that a company that literally named itself after a cursed tool used by the epitome of evil is not viewed with more suspicion. People should be protesting outside of Palantir HQ every day.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    unfortunately, thiel has been keeping mostly a low-profile publically for a decade +. and he works very hard to quash any news about him. GAWKER, sued to oblivion, his boytoywhich he allegedly defenestrated last year barely made news in florida, because the boytoy was voicing increasing concern about his anti-lgbtq+ motivations.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There are some pros. Like mitigated health risks due to monitoring for outbreaks. Or being able to reallocate medical or emergency services to weighted areas.

    There is a LOT of potential for misuse that, in my opinion, outweighs the good.

    My personal thought is that we would need a Digital Information protection in place like how HIPAA protects medical data. I'm not the person with the background to do something but this is just a thought of a random internet person.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not just potential for misuse. The people in charge of Palantir are the exact sort of people you don't want having access to any kind of data, because they will find a way to weaponize it, monetize it, or both; consequences or laws be damned. They're run not just by billionaires, not just by transhumanists, but by technofacist accelerationists.

    The fall of Palantir cannot come too soon.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Not just kne nation, their business plan is to actively do this across all nations, and the spineless apologists who make up Western Politics are happy licking Palantir's ass and giving them contracts all the way. The fuckwits.

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  • Peter Theil is the most dangerous man in the world. He literally wants to replace humanity with souless transhumans.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    they were already doing that through PRSIM/Tempura

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