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Palantir Knows Everything About You (bloomberg.com)
Palantir, a data-mining company created by Peter Thiel, is aiding government agencies by tracking American citizens using the War on Terror, Bloomberg reports. From the report: The company's engineers and products don't do any spying themselves; they're more like a spy's brain, collecting and analyzing information that's fed in from the hands, eyes, nose, and ears. The software combs through disparate data sources -- financial documents, airline reservations, cellphone records, social media postings -- and searches for connections that human analysts might miss. It then presents the linkages in colorful, easy-to-interpret graphics that look like spider webs.
[...] The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services uses Palantir to detect Medicare fraud. The FBI uses it in criminal probes. The Department of Homeland Security deploys it to screen air travelers and keep tabs on immigrants. Police and sheriff's departments in New York, New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles have also used it, frequently ensnaring in the digital dragnet people who aren't suspected of committing any crime.
[...] The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services uses Palantir to detect Medicare fraud. The FBI uses it in criminal probes. The Department of Homeland Security deploys it to screen air travelers and keep tabs on immigrants. Police and sheriff's departments in New York, New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles have also used it, frequently ensnaring in the digital dragnet people who aren't suspected of committing any crime.
This is not news. The us government is tracking anything and everything. They might have a hard time noise vs signal, but they are collecting, watching, listening, refining methods and tools. If you think otherwise, I at least hope the ignorance is bliss.
I have secrets that I will take to my grave and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. Does that make you ANGRY, Palantir? xD xD xD
"Palantir began work with the LAPD in 2009. The impetus was federal funding."
So I took taxpayer money to spy on taxpayers while skirting taxpayer laws.
If a company has no relation to you, business, personal, or otherwise, then by law you should be able to order them to remove all data from there system that pertains to you.
Even better they shouldn't be allowed to keep it in the first place.
Even then all data after 7 years should have a sunset clause and be required to be removed.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
I bet everyone saw this coming.
Get it? Saw?
I'll see myself out.
But does it know the length of the US Coastline?
If Palantir has wrong information on someone won't that make this person a victim of the state? How are decisions made on data collected by various shady deals, when we don't know if the data is correct?
Or for that matter, Peter Thiel.
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The next totalitarian government will use it to dispose of dissidents before they can group into any sizeable opposition.
I guess you'd be labeled a terrorist threat if you started posting incorrect information.
Things like instead of removing photo EXIF information, geotagging it with places like Greenland or Antarctica.
Posting fake updates on facebook/linkedin with new jobs, or actually accepting friend requests from the bots. Posting on instagram rumors and liking some of the crazier people.
its all fun and games until you start posting shit online that particular power structures don't like.
don't blow this off and say it doesn't concern you: everyone with an opinion is at risk.
WHEN PALANTIR KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUUUU
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I tried Palantir once - but all I saw were a pair of old hands, withering in flame.
#DeleteChrome
For a man who claims to be a Libertarian, Peter Thiel is awfully willing to help authoritarians ruin people's lives and abuse their power. Even if you 100% believe in the US justice system (I don't), this software is probably for sale to China, Burma, Saudi, and a whole bunch of other repressive regimes.
Remove progressive scum ? They're the stain, we're the bleach.
Interesting place. Lots of nice people.
Everyone worried about "background checks = feds coming for my guns" should consider that hundreds of big data firms already know how many guns you have when people talk about closing loopholes. And if they don't, you're certainly not posting on /. Hats off to your primitive cabin resourcefulness, you off-grid woodspeople who will never see this!
The word Palantir must come from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. They were stones with which one could communicate with anyone looking into another Palantir. The largest could evesdrop on the others.
Jewish billionaire is a sociopathic weirdo stalker, maybe someone should set a site up to track these douchebags, where does he live ? where does he eat?, where are his children/wife?, what are his car registrations?, what time does he leave his house ?
if you have nothing to hide egh ?
He should be killed on site.
Palantir is proof that any one who was "shocked" by what Snowden etc "revealed" are idiots and/or uninformed. Planitir was around for years before the leakers and they were very very public about telling the world that this kind of data mining was ubiquitous. We never needed the drama queens to spill the beans, any of the concept we're public for a long time. All they did was reveal some details which compromised some poor field agents and got them killed.
Peter Thiel is a piece of shit. Stick that in your database Palantir and fuck yourself with it.
Agreed, HP, IBM, Oracle has had identity management suites that do this for a while now. Analyst's Notebook was picked up by IBM and does nearly the same thing. The Army's bigger System DCGS also does this but on a greater scale aka TIA (Total Information Awareness) Was based on Analyst's Notebook and Lockheed's Information Sharing Environment solution. If you look at LE (Law Enforcement) use cases, they're totally dominated by Microsoft's Power BI (Business Intelligence) or Data Integration platforms similar to SoftwareAG. The only reason you don't hear anything about these guys is because they create a platform so large and pervasive that Journalists can't wrap their heads around how big data works.
Palantir is today's buzz word, and they're getting tons of free advertising from these muckrack[tm] journalists. It makes you wonder if the Journalists are being paid by sponsors to hype up these companies to make them into not just a big name in Data Analysis, but a household name. Next thing you know, Slack, Mattersmost, Discord, and Twitch are going to be dragged through the muck.
* https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/03/04/how-predictive-analytics-can-help-law-enforcement-fight-crime/
* http://www1.softwareag.com/corporate/images/SAG_Terracotta_US_Law_Enforcement_RS_Mar16_WEB_tcm16-107904.pdf
* https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2017/03/16/lockheed-cyber-crime-contract.aspx
* http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/crimefighting/
Either these journalists are under someone's dime, or they're really really misinformed.
Look at Discord, they just made $50 mill today:
* https://discordapp.com/privacy
** Developers: Developers using our SDK or API will have access to their end users’ information, including message content, message metadata, and voice metadata. Developers must use such information only to provide the SDK/API functionality within their applications and/or services.
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Comcast knows everything about you.
Verizon knows everything about you.
Comcast knows everything about you.
IRS knows everything about you.
Google knows everything about you.
Facebook knows everything about you.
Uber knows everything about you.
Grocery stores know everything about you.
Credit agencies know everything about you.
I can go all day.
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
and the shaft for the poor.
Go read up on liberland and discuss.seasteading.org for examples. Or y'know any Conservative website 'Libertarians in name only' frequent.
Read and KNOW your true enemies: Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were these nations banishing them a lie? Argentines in 1940 under Peron, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms, Spanish inquistion & Spain 1492 and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Mark Zuckerberg who STOLE facebook's code from the Winklevoss twins (who dusted him in court on it) calling his users "DUMB FUCKS" & spied on his collegiate classmates via 'fakebook', home of bots and spying/tracking you, now in court FRYING (rightfully so). He also PAID OFF the courts (by political contributions like Jew PACS do) on the MAJORITY of the council judges there. He STILL had to apologize!
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?...
Like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
John Podesta Hillary's pal again, is another JUDE with a pedophile brother (both = satanists too imo).
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer â" so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread (which THIS video covers in detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8Y1743QoY/ & how they ran the black slave trade + how they say a prayer to KILL US ALL (goyim) during passover), infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?... too!
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 (perpetrated by the Mossad & Bebe Netanyahu of ISRAEL) https:/
Agreed, it's not news. But an article that manages to mention Thiel, War on Terror, collecting personal information, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and illegal immagrants is clickbait gold.
You have to be really strong willed to use it at all let alone wisely.
another NAZI makes his true colors known.
the man has to eat...
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Even FB is wrong about me. All of these tech companies vastly overstate their abilities.
They have avoided journalistic scrutiny because the founders of those companies have not publicly supported or worked with Trump.
But if your company does the same things as those other companies, and your executives are publicly pro-Trump? You gonna get journalistically investigated.
Uh huh.
They _don't_ know where Jim Gray is, which means they don't know everything about everybody.
Besides, Thiel is a head-freezer, which means he's batsh!t crazy....
99% of this data comes from Facebook.
You should check out his book, manufacturing consent.
Spoken like a true fascist.
Or something. Back when, National Socialism didn't get popular because it wanted to kill all the jews. That, along with another people killing program, came later and basically ended up with a life of its own. Nazism got popular because it offered the population something it badly wanted but hadn't been able to get: A way out of trouble. And they were in deeply depressing desperate doo-doo back then.
Fascism, by the by, similar story. It didn't have a bad name then, that came later.
Now, of course, "nazi" and "fascist", along with a number of other slurs, are the staple of the post-fact inclusivity diversity progressive discourse. There's barely any content in there, but lots of non-progressive shaming.
And yeah, I too think that the progressive ideology has gone bust at least thirty years ago, but we're not allowed to say it. Anyone who does gets shunned, called racist, "islamophobic", xenophobic, or any number of other bad words. If you look closely it becomes quite obvious that there's almost never any rebuttals on content, but always attacks on the person. Like you're doing here. It's how the progressives cling to power.
Libertarians like Peter Thiel keeps proving my adage right: libertarians are just monarchs waiting to happen.
Libertarians only want freedom for themselves, and at the expense of other people if they can help it.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
Palantir isn't collecting data on you, the Government and corporations do that.
Palantir is a software company who makes an integrated, modular system for data integration and analysis (such as link analysis). They don't collect the data -- they sell the software to entities who have data feeds that need to be analyzed. (However, Palantir does provide consultants to work on-site with the customers to help use and customize the software.)
About a decade ago when Palantir was brand new, I recommended them to certain military customers I was working for; it was an excellent product! Some people hate the company (because it is fashionable to hate them in some circles). They got a lot of "hype", because they actually delivered useful software that solved problems. Imagine that! I have never had any connection to the company other than telling my clients that they should become customers (users). Worked out very well and the clients were ecstatic with the results. I have heard that not every one of their customers was as happy, for whatever reason. Your milage may vary, I guess.
It was largely written in Java, and was all about pluggable and customizable modules for data management: taking feeds, cleaning/loading, and lots of modules for various kinds of analysis. Haven't seen Palantir in years, but I would be surprised if by now they didn't have AI/ML goodies, and probably (wildly guessing here) good interfaces for Python, too.
I would suggest learning more about history, as you are somewhat off base. Michael Burleigh would be a good place to start.
The next totalitarian government will use it to dispose of dissidents before they can group into any sizeable opposition.
They already do - see PRNK, China, Russia, Iran ....