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Another quality Palantir product, alongside their immigrant management product for ICE, their gang activity product for the LAPD, and their journalist-tracking
by legerdemain 6y ago
Another quality Palantir product, alongside their immigrant management product for ICE, their gang activity product for the LAPD, and their journalist-tracking product for the KSA.
- Der_Einzige 6y agoIsn't it good that people who build things you oppose are incompetent? I would unironically celebrate that. For example, I'm happy that the CIA/FBI are occasionally incompetent because it hurts their ability to meaningfully implement and reduces the worst impacts of mass surveillance.
- ping_pong 6y agoNo, because instead of worrying about the bad data, the powers that be will instead take the bad data as-is. No one cares about data quality, they only care that they have someone or something to point to when they make terrible policy decisions. THAT'S the problem. Why do you think Trump wants to exclude illegal immigrants from the Census? The media will never footnote data because they are lazy or don't understand or they've given up. The same goes for when GW Bush took the cost of the Iraq War out of the budget. Every media outlet just fell in line and reported the budget as-is, instead of saying "Oh by the way, the trillions of dollars spent on the Iraq War aren't part of this number."
- rsynnott 6y agoIf something is bad, and everyone knows it's bad, and it's thus ignored, that's fine. If something is bad, but people believe it's a magical oracle, that's _very_ dangerous.