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Palantir would have formed the core of both the Gestapo's and the STASI's population-monitoring programs, and perhaps Germany has had enough of that kind of thi
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Palantir would have formed the core of both the Gestapo's and the STASI's population-monitoring programs, and perhaps Germany has had enough of that kind of thing?
- omnibrain 4y agoThat's more or less it. With the "Volkszählungsurteil" and varios judgements regarding "Rasterfahndung" and later "Schleierfahndung" and "Lauschangriff" our constitutional court constructed some sort of "basic human right to privacy" called "Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung" (right for informational self-determination). The judgements footed on various articles of our moder (post 1945) constitution and its bill of rights and indirectly in the experiences under NSDAP and SED rule.
- tg180 4y agoWhile reading the article I couldn't stop thinking that the new partnership with Crisis24, which is not irrelevant in the Konstanz tech scene, has contributed to making Palantir's data collection "less virtual" for the German DPAs.
- jonnybgood 4y agoPretty sure Germany uses Excel and variety of DBMS's. What do you think makes Palantir any different?
- johannes1234321 4y ago> variety of DBMS's. This is the key. Germany doesn't have a central citizen database or something like that, but each municipality has a system on their own. Any bad actor can't search through that to discriminate, deport or whatever people. This of course also leads to problems like paying out corona support money to students still isn't completely done etc. Palantir tries to create an Über-Database.
- mclightning 4y agoLarge-scale immediate query-ability.