Palantir Built the Data Layer That Right to Erasure Can't Touch

Here is a longer research piece on Palantir's ELITE that you might appreciate: https://frontierlabs.substack.com/p/the-pins-are-people

The idea that it's harder to query and delete everything relating to a person from a well-organized graph than from the typical corporate patchwork of data systems seems very improbable. The post also reads like a barely tweaked Gemini output. I'm not a Palantir fan, but this feels flimsy.

>Here’s why this changes everything: most AI accountability frameworks assume a discrete, auditable dataset. EU’s GDPR gives you the right to erasure — the right to delete your data. But GDPR was written for databases. The Ontology is a graph. You can delete a node. You can’t easily delete the edges i.e, the inferred relationships between you and everything else the system has connected you to.

Edges are personal data according to GDPR so this is completely wrong. Almost all things to which the GDPR applies are edges.

'impossiblefork likes stories' is an edge.

Ontologies are also old. It's been a big research area since like the 90s.

the legal question is settled. edges are personal data under gdpr. the practical question is who audits a knowledge graph to verify deletion actually happened. palantir knows the answer is nobody.

AIDR

"Here's why this changes everything" - I am begging people to not just paste the output of LLM, the writing is so bloody turgid I can't stand it.

By all means chuck a few things through and read it, but please please please don't make me read your slop - put some effort in.