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Palentir exists because unconstitutional, illegal or retroactively legal, and in any case absolutely breathtakingly overreaching mass spying (including domestic
by jadedhacker 9y ago
Palentir exists because unconstitutional, illegal or retroactively legal, and in any case absolutely breathtakingly overreaching mass spying (including domestic spying via incidental collection) programs like Stellar Wind, Muscular, XKEYSCORE, Prism, etc exist. Palantir's job is to take massive amounts of data and make it intelligible using visualization and search tools. It makes money off of programs that either shouldn't exist or should be severely restricted.
- jonnybgood 9y ago> Palantir's job is to take massive amounts of data and make it intelligible using visualization and search tools. You just described Google and many other tech companies. There's nothing illegal about that.
- jadedhacker 9y agoThe purpose matters. Google isn't collecting data to make it easier for an attached organization to kill people or disrupt other societies in calculated ways. Also important are the fact that Google's collection processes depend on some kind of consent and aren't collected by the state monopoly on force. The state is considered by many to be reneging on its 4th amendment due process protections by engaging in a domestic and worldwide dragnet of breathtaking proportions.