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Are Palantir employees starting to realize they're the baddies?

Boing Boing·Séamus Bellamy·about 1 month ago
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Co-founded by famed FBI informant Peter Thiel (along with seed money from the CIA), Palantir's tech is often used to make hospital networks run more efficiently, monitor food supply chains and energy consumption or predict when a piece of machinery may need to be replaced. All good things! But, when the company you work for is named after a malignant all-seeing sphere , it's a good possibility that the company you're working for might not have everyone's best interests at heart. Donald Trump's second term as President of the United States has been salad days for Palantir : their biometric identification, tracking and administrative products have helped the Department of Homeland Security grease the wheels of deportation and detainment machinery with the blood of untold numbers of hardworking Americans and souls looking for a better life.…

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