Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired

Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:48PM (#16693859)

Side question, why is it legal to take a name from "Lord of The Rings"?

Wouldn't the Tolkien Estate have a copyright on that?

Could I start a newspaper tomorrow called "The Daily Bugle"...(which is where Spiderman works)?

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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by jzl on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:31PM (#16695024)

They disingenuously claim it has roots in Latin without mentioning LotR at all:

Even if it does, and I'd love to see more details about that (Google translates 'openly' as 'palam'), it's clearly a LotR reference.

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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by leodeid on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:48PM (#16695108)

Palantir.net is not the same Palantir everyone is talking about here. Palantir.net seems to be a website consultancy for drupal-based sites.

Palantir.com doesn't seem to have anything referencing the source of the name.

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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by jzl on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:50AM (#16697277)

Ah! Thanks for the correction.

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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by akusete on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:57PM (#16702812)

It's legal because they license the rights to use the name from the Token Estate.

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