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Re:Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River... by okareaman on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:31PM (#28241031)
Curious, I did a search sorted by popularity on HN. Palantir appears to be an impressively evil company:

    Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired
    Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
    NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
    Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients
    U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians
    How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network
    Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal
Re:Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River... by Barrin92 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:52PM (#28241162)
I mean everything Peter Thiel funds is basically a technology out of Minority Report combined with a name from Lord of the Rings on it

At this point you can probably reverse engineer that process. Invent something that persecutes minorities in some form, go to the lotr wiki, hit the random button and apply for a loan

Re:Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River... by mgh2 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:39PM (#28241451)
Careful, there is a lot of propaganda against Palantir because they stand against big tech, Silicon Valley, and its political agenda - which controls the majority of the media.

For example: The first story, it was later confirmed Palantir declined it, even the whistleblower admitted that they were just talking but never amounted to anything https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambrid...

I also encourage you to read in detail MiJente's report on ICE, I had to stop midway due to personal attacks on Thiel, nothing related to the business, it seemed like propaganda whitepaper.

There is no question how far big tech will go to brainwash the population with ads, as they profit from that business model and squash every opposition against them. Be very careful of what you read online, even in HN.

Re:Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River... by kazoomonger on Friday August 20, 2021 @12:35AM (#28242635)
From your own link:

> “That was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica, but there were Palantir staff that would come into the office and work on that data,” Wylie told lawmakers. He added that Palantir staff “helped build the models we were working on.”

Re:Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River... by mmiyer on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:22PM (#28241342)
Also they help ICE deport uncodumented immigrants.
Re:Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River... by syntheticcorp on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:01AM (#28243131)
Is assisting in the enforcement of immigration law really “evil”?
Re:Palantir CEO Alex Karp gives $180k to ousted hermit River... by seriousquestion on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:34PM (#28241420)
Here's how meaningless this smear campaign is:

> Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired

Google, PG&E, DoorDash, Edible Arrangements, worked with Cambridge Analytica...

> Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens

The government does using some of Palantir's tools. Does Palatir itself do that?

> NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract

So?

> Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

So?

> U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians

Accuse being the key word.

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

How Google, PG&E, DoorDash and Edible Arrangements helped expand the NSA's global spy network. Maybe the NSA is the problem here, not service providers?

> Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal

Why did Britain give them access to that?