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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by williamscales on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:55PM (#12802099)
I don't think that Palantir being a public company would necessarily give the kind of insight into what they do to satisfy our curiosity. As far as I understand, Palantir could be very financially transparent while still keeping mum about who their clients are and what they are doing for them.

I think it's worth remembering that Enron was public.

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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by SapphireSun on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:37PM (#12802742)
I agree with you on the whole, but Enron was pre Sarbanes-Oxley which initiated a raft of reporting requirements on companies, so Enron is often a poor comparison to the present day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act

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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by bogomipz on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:23AM (#12805295)
Can you elaborate on:

"financially transparent while still keeping mum about who their clients are"

How would this work in practical terms?

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