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They're probably using Palantir. I wonder how Thiel resolves his libertarian/freedom philosophy with supplying the government with such a powerful oppressive t
by aswanson 14y ago
They're probably using Palantir. I wonder how Thiel resolves his libertarian/freedom philosophy with supplying the government with such a powerful oppressive tool.
- wyck 14y agoWell there is also this company https://www.recordedfuture.com/ https://www.recordedfuture.com/ which has the CIA and Google as investors, like anything political the grey area covers a lot.
- magicalist 14y ago"We constantly collect news, blogs, and public social media. We identify the events: past, present, and future. We help you find predictive signals in the noise of the web." sounds like...anyone doing information extraction or sentiment analysis from the web? If investment is the only thing to raise a red flag, you have to worry about a lot more companies than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments
- cheeseprocedure 14y agoI had a chance to speak to one of the lead developers at Palantir a couple years back, and asked him about this apparent conflict of political ideals. His answer: by enabling agencies to properly apply the data they already have, Palantir's products reduce the pressure to further erode civil liberties in the pursuit of more data.
- shmerl 14y agoDidn't IBM help we know whom to sort their victims' data during the WWII? This kind of argument doesn't work.
- cheeseprocedure 14y agoI'm not sure that comparison is in the same ballpark. (I'm also not supporting his stance.)
- shmerl 14y agoWhom do they think they are? The Dark Lord himself?