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> Who will be the Snowden of Palintir to give it the public scrutiny required to make sure their powers stay in reasonable bounds? The problem is, any kind of
by AndrewBissell 6y ago
> Who will be the Snowden of Palintir to give it the public scrutiny required to make sure their powers stay in reasonable bounds?
The problem is, any kind of big data dump inevitably would be met with the same excuse which is made on behalf of all big tech power these days: "it's just a private firm so it doesn't need to abide by the same limitations that would apply to the government."
- lrvick 6y agoI suspect public awareness of a few disgraceful mistakes (that have no doubt happened given the scale) would cause political pressure to potentially reform the laws that allowed this accountability lacking power structure to exist in the first place.