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> It wasn't two months ago. Plenty of people on UK and Europe thought that putting full trust in Palantir was a terrible idea, 6 months or 18 months or more a
by SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
> It wasn't two months ago.
Plenty of people on UK and Europe thought that putting full trust in Palantir was a terrible idea, 6 months or 18 months or more ago. I agree that the temperature on this has risen a lot recently, but the concern is longstanding.
example from 2020: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/nhs-must-explain-role-of-surveillance-company/ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/nhs-must-expl...
- Zigurd 2y agoTBF, the same applies to the F 35. In kind of the same way. Not only is it expensive to buy, you're committing to high sustainment costs from what should be a reliable ally.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoThere are many parallels, yes. The Lockheed Martin F-35 is the flying manifestation of the US military-industrial hardware corporation complex, and Palantir's software is the Silicon valley military-surveillance big-data software corporation complex equivalent. And the new awareness will be similar https://www.eurasiantimes.com/another-country-regrets-f-35-purchase/ https://www.eurasiantimes.com/another-country-regrets-f-35-p... It's debatable which is more dangerous. Warplanes or lack of air defence poses one risk in a hot war, surveillance data poses a different risk but is in the background all the time.