News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees. Parent comment

Re:The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE und... by michaelt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:24PM (#20770381)
A great many expansions to the power of the state have been justified with the argument "this is to fight terror and child abuse"

Perhaps they signed up naively imagining they were working on a tool that would be used for that and nothing else?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE und... by creaghpatr on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:29PM (#20770439)
It's definitely a weird company to work for if you don't believe in enforcing laws, or only partial enforcement of laws; especially border laws.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE und... by inflatableDodo on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:35PM (#20770501)
Well, the owner presumably doesn't think that most laws currently on the books should be enforced, unless I have missed something regarding right wing libertarianism.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE und... by fzeroracer on Thursday August 22, 2019 @02:26PM (#20770981)
Or maybe the fact that ICE has been overabusing their authority to also detain US citizens for weeks at a time despite providing evidence of their citizenship has got people wondering if they're the baddies. In addition to, you know, the horrible treatment of asylum seekers incl. things such as not providing flu vaccines.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE und... by immaway on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:57PM (#20771803)
Detainees are given provided food, shelter and medical treatment. Overcrowding can happen at time when you have a 1000 people at a time cross in a day at a single point. There are no cloud facilities.

What is your alternative?

[ Parent | on HN ]