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First of all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Contro... Also: > Whe

First of all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Contro... Also: > When intruders from the hacker group Anonymous gained access to thousands of emails stored on the servers of the security firm HB Gary Federal, the emails revealed that Palantir had worked with HB Gary Federal to develop proposals for attacking WikiLeaks’ infrastructure, blackmailing its supporters and identifying donors. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/09/did-security-firms-pitch-bank-of-america-on-sabotaging-wikileaks/#68a511c47556 http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/09/did-sec... There was also the sex scandal with their founder and a Stanford student: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-unde... This thread on HN also has some discussion about their government and military contracts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036156

argonaut 11y ago
The sex accusations ended up being baseless, and Stanford reversed their ban on Lonsdale entering the campus (and Stanford has a lower evidentiary standard than the courts) Also, your quote doesn't appear in that article at all any more.
- randycupertino 11y ago
  Sorry here's another link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup-palantir-denies-its-prism-software-is-the-nsas-prism-surveillance-system/#3b4d95124463 http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup... Second to last paragraph. As for the sex accusations, who knows what really happened. Though the article doesn't exactly paint him- edit- either of them- in a flattering light. It does show poor judgement for the dude to get involved with a student he is mentoring. Then again, he also stumped on the campaign trail for Rand Paul of all people and also pals around with Mitt Romney.
  - argonaut 11y ago
    Look, my point is, it's not valid to bring up the sex accusations, because they were proved to be false.

argonaut 11y ago

The sex accusations ended up being baseless, and Stanford reversed their ban on Lonsdale entering the campus (and Stanford has a lower evidentiary standard than the courts) Also, your quote doesn't appear in that article at all any more.

randycupertino 11y ago
Sorry here's another link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup-palantir-denies-its-prism-software-is-the-nsas-prism-surveillance-system/#3b4d95124463 http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup... Second to last paragraph. As for the sex accusations, who knows what really happened. Though the article doesn't exactly paint him- edit- either of them- in a flattering light. It does show poor judgement for the dude to get involved with a student he is mentoring. Then again, he also stumped on the campaign trail for Rand Paul of all people and also pals around with Mitt Romney.
- argonaut 11y ago
  Look, my point is, it's not valid to bring up the sex accusations, because they were proved to be false.