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No need to scrape anything when you can just subpoena. That is the business palantir is in.

• anigbrowl 9y ago
  Subpoenas need some probable cause to be issued. It'd be interesting to estimate what percentage of target population you'd need to subpoena complete details on in order to build a social graph of the whole population, but I feel that that volume of legal activity would create waves even if it were only around 1%. Most court systems are overburdended as is, a significant increase would be noticeable. Of course, if you were just getting that information as a matter of course in many arrests and were willing to accumulate it slowly over time it's very possible. I'm preoccupied with scraping issues as that's my only available avenue.
  • daodedickinson 9y ago
    Palantir works with agencies that can use FISA warrants to quickly and silently grab just about anything.