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What, gives the impression that anyone is saying that? What makes this particularly newsworthy is the company's previous denials that it software was involved.
by Angostura 8y ago
What, gives the impression that anyone is saying that? What makes this particularly newsworthy is the company's previous denials that it software was involved.
- darawk 8y agoThe spokesperson said that they did not work for ERO. The reporting says that ERO agents used the software. There's no contradiction there.
- untog 8y agoThen it's still an interesting story because it demonstrates the creep of software like this. When you're vacuuming up all sorts of data there's nothing stopping that data being used for a purpose you never intended.
- darawk 8y agoYa I guess. I mean, if they didn't have this Palantir thing maybe they'd have used Excel. But we've already sort of grandfathered Excel into the "tools taken for granted by civilization" so maybe that wouldn't have made the news.
- fche 8y agolook downthread for examples open borders, hugging illegal aliens is de rigeur amongst the vanguard of the proletariat