How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network

Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by clydethefrog on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @08:58AM (#13705490)

The technology in the first iPhone ten years ago also existed for many years. Look how much society has changed thanks to Apple strategy of combining technology with design and good usability.

That's the real and in my opinion frightening innovation behind Palantir. It's selling mass surveillance that "just works".

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by liquidise on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:45AM (#13706843)

They are selling data visualization, not mass surveillance. There is a key distinction here. If it had some out that MongoDB was being used as the underlying datastore for XKS or that Tableau was being used to visualize the data, would we be decrying those products too?

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by throwaway2048 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:35PM (#13707868)

MongoDB developers arnt not writing said software in a way specificly targeted at government usage for surveillance.

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