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Re:NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possib... by noodlesUK on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:47PM (#38903936)
This doesn’t even begin to surprise me. Even on a tiny scale, myself and a couple of the other top students at our university got an unsolicited phone call from palantir about 10 min after we finished our last exams congratulating us on finishing university and encouraging us to apply to Palantir. They had clearly gotten access to our exam timetable so they could call us right after we had finished.

It was deeply creepy, and left a very unpleasant taste in my mouth.

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Re:NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possib... by neilv on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:05PM (#38904122)
Sounds like a good filter for culture: discourage the people who wouldn't be onboard with company approaches, and simultaneously attract the people who want to be a part of the power that the company just flexed a tiny bit.
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Re:NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possib... by mdhb on Sunday January 07, 2024 @03:40PM (#38904935)
I imagine after thinking about it for more than thirty seconds some rather obvious problems begin to emerge with this approach.
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Re:NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possib... by neilv on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:34PM (#38905897)
What's an example problem?

(Something about building a company of power-seeking people who don't notice, or aren't bothered by, ethical questionability? Some companies have herded those well enough, and thrived for decades, like that.)

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Re:NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possib... by mdhb on Monday January 08, 2024 @04:14PM (#38918225)
That’s what you want from a company that suddenly has access to you and the rest of the countries personal health data where you can’t opt out?

This isn’t a cryptocurrency company. It’s at the core of a public service handling some of the nations most sensitive data.

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Re:NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possib... by neilv on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:07PM (#38933639)
Agreed; I only meant a good cultural filtering approach for a company with poor intentions. (Approach students with an inappropriate flex of power, scaring away the people who'd object to things like that, and attracting the people who want to be part of that.)
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