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The expectation is that companies like Palantir should not exist at all. Their core business is surveilling innocent people en masse.
by _bxg1 7y ago
The expectation is that companies like Palantir should not exist at all. Their core business is surveilling innocent people en masse.
- prepend 7y agoThat is not their core business. Their core business is data analysis. If I remember from some tech book, they were spun out from the fraud department in PayPal detecting fraudulent transactions and then selling services to FBI. I became familiar with them through their disease prevention activities trying to evaluate bug transmissions and food borne diseases. Certainly, you can analyze innocent people, but it’s not like they are a face recognition camera company or something. I’m not employed by Palantir and not a fan or anything, but am surprised at how mischaracterized they seem to be.
- notJim 7y ago> Their core business is data analysis. This is like saying Raytheon's core business is antennas. Yes, Palantir does data analysis, specifically for ICE, the military and the police.
- prepend 7y agoPalantir is private so hard to know revenue breakdown. But hard to believe that over 50% of their revenue (what I would consider core) comes from ICE, military and police. I found this article [0] from 2018 that said half of its $1B in revenue comes from government and the other half from corporate. So if every penny of government work comes from ICE and ICE-likes maybe that’s core. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/palantir-posted-nearly-1-billion-in-2018-sales-executive-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/palantir-...
- tzakrajs 7y agoWhat if the other corporations they serve are subcontracted by LEO, ICE and CBP? Palantir is deeply in cahoots with CBP/ICE and Peter Thiel (isn't even a US Citizen so I can't even call him a traitor, but) is an enemy of the American people. Fuck ICE, Fuck Palantir, Fuck Peter Thiel