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

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

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    432·
    9 months ago

    I don’t get it.

    Others have paid billions in fines. Facebook, Cambridge Analytica for example. And we thought they were the super villains already.

    These super villains here are doing the same, and worse, and they do it in the open, and they go free, and they are even praised for it.

    A toast: Let’s all puke on them!

    • Mora@pawb.socialEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      And worse: other governments are actively buying into this. German officials were shocked when by Cambridge Analytica, Snowden revelations and even when their phone number on Facebook was leaked. But hey, now that they want to pay for it, they can’t be the product, right? Right?🙈

      • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        It’s cuz of pro palestinian sentiments growing in the country. They don’t like these analytics companies, but their inner xenophobia trumps it. They have to defend against these filthy immigrants (especially the non-white, non-blue eyes, non-blond ones) from destroying German values. /s

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
    261·
    9 months ago

    Someone want to estimate what are the chances that Peter Thiel isn’t illegally handing all that data over to MAGA strategists under the table, in the full knowledge that the worst he could ever get is a trivial fine?

    • tomiant@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      He isn’t at the head of it. He’s the figurehead, at best. But dark fucking times are upon us.

      I hate being so doomy about it, but damn, just look around. Is there anything that seems stable and moving in the right direction at all, ANYWHERE?

    • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Yes! It’s absolutely a new world order they are building. I wish those of us that see it were better grouped up at this point to share information and get a clearer understanding.

  • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

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

  • jali67@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

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