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Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by prepend on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:19PM (#16725689)
How is Thiel’s Gawker funding in conflict with Palantir.

These seem like very different things. Palantir is a massive investigation software tool like many other BI/Analytics tools. Palantir doesn’t collect data, but use data others collect. It’s like complaining because Excel is used to analyze the Facebook data.

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by dahdum on Saturday March 31, 2018 @08:30PM (#16725977)
Gawker encroached his privacy, but Palantir was built to do exactly that to the public, at scale.
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Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by prepend on Saturday March 31, 2018 @08:34PM (#16725991)
Are you sure? Palantir doesn’t encroach privacy more than R or SAS or any of the other myriad analytics software.

Are there examples of Palantir collecting data? Or violating user privacy?

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by dahdum on Saturday March 31, 2018 @08:40PM (#16726012)
They work directly with the government to enable them to do so. I’m not faulting them directly, just pointing out why the link can be made.

I think Palantir is mostly a joke, overpaid consultants selling subpar technology backed by slick salespeople and PowerPoints. Like IBM.

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by Fnoord on Saturday March 31, 2018 @08:24PM (#16725955)
Palantir won't work w/o any of the data. Facebook would work w/o the invention of a spreadsheet. I mean, they could just program their own.
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