Re:Palantir: The War on Terror's Secret Weapon
by bane on Monday November 28, 2011 @11:51PM
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Good point, I had more or less stopped reading when it started looking like too much of an advert.
All three of the things you pointed out, particularly the last two, speak slimeball-ville to me. I mean, really? An organization that speaks so often of civil liberties hires Bryan Cunningham?
"From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties." - Palantir's apology regarding the HBGary fiasco.
It's almost not possible to think of a legal advisor more at odds with that statement. There's a few, but not many.
It actually saddens me knowing that they generally hire really smart, clever, creative people on the engineering side, but have such an immense ability to tolerate clear ethical problems in the corporate management side...it seems to me that it's only a matter of time before that place blows up in a scandal like the ticking time-bomb that it appears to be.
All three of the things you pointed out, particularly the last two, speak slimeball-ville to me. I mean, really? An organization that speaks so often of civil liberties hires Bryan Cunningham?
"From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties." - Palantir's apology regarding the HBGary fiasco.
It's almost not possible to think of a legal advisor more at odds with that statement. There's a few, but not many.
It actually saddens me knowing that they generally hire really smart, clever, creative people on the engineering side, but have such an immense ability to tolerate clear ethical problems in the corporate management side...it seems to me that it's only a matter of time before that place blows up in a scandal like the ticking time-bomb that it appears to be.