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ToTok Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool
- 1propionyl 7y ago> Pax employees are made up of European, Asian and Emirati data scientists, and the company is run by Andrew Jackson, an Irish data scientist who previously worked at Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm that works with the Pentagon and American spy agencies. Surprise, surprise.
- atlasunshrugged 7y agoAbout the fact that he worked at Palantir? Not sure why that's such an enlightening point - I wouldn't automatically expect someone to jump from Palantir to working for the UAE. My general impression is that Thiel and other top Palantir folks are generally very pro USA and protecting America's interests so it's somewhat surprising to me that a Palantir person would work on something like this unless there's a US connection (although money is a powerful motivator to do lots of things).