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That's not entirely fair. The article does have the following "Christopher Soghoian, a graduate fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity in the School of

That's not entirely fair. The article does have the following "Christopher Soghoian, a graduate fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, worries that Palantir will make these agencies ever hungrier consumers of every piece of personal data. “I don’t think Palantir the firm is evil,” he says. “I think their clients could be using it for evil things.” Soghoian points out that Palantir’s senior legal adviser, Bryan Cunningham, authored an amicus brief three years ago supporting the Bush Administration’s position in the infamous warrantless wiretapping case and defended its monitoring domestic communication without search warrants. Another event that got critics exercised: A Palantir engineer, exposed by the hacker collective Anonymous earlier this year for participating in a plot to break into the PCs of WikiLeaks supporters, was quietly rehired by the company after being placed on leave."

bane 15y ago
Good point, I had more or less stopped reading when it started looking like too much of an advert. All three of the things you pointed out, particularly the last two, speak slimeball-ville to me. I mean, really? An organization that speaks so often of civil liberties hires Bryan Cunningham? "From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties." - Palantir's apology regarding the HBGary fiasco. It's almost not possible to think of a legal advisor more at odds with that statement. There's a few, but not many. It actually saddens me knowing that they generally hire really smart, clever, creative people on the engineering side, but have such an immense ability to tolerate clear ethical problems in the corporate management side...it seems to me that it's only a matter of time before that place blows up in a scandal like the ticking time-bomb that it appears to be.

bane 15y ago

Good point, I had more or less stopped reading when it started looking like too much of an advert. All three of the things you pointed out, particularly the last two, speak slimeball-ville to me. I mean, really? An organization that speaks so often of civil liberties hires Bryan Cunningham? "From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties." - Palantir's apology regarding the HBGary fiasco. It's almost not possible to think of a legal advisor more at odds with that statement. There's a few, but not many. It actually saddens me knowing that they generally hire really smart, clever, creative people on the engineering side, but have such an immense ability to tolerate clear ethical problems in the corporate management side...it seems to me that it's only a matter of time before that place blows up in a scandal like the ticking time-bomb that it appears to be.