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The law is generally a bad proxy for whether or not society approves of xyz commercial behavior

I don't think people are accusing Palantir of criminally misusing the data. The government rewrites the laws around what these analytics firms are capable of, and as such Palantir operates in that space. Whether or not it's "illegal" doesn't change the fact that what they're doing is creepy Big Brother shit.

Also bullshit that they don't store data.

>Like it or not, there really isn't any other company at this scale capable of doing the sort of work Palantir

That’s only making European entrepreneurs salivate at all of that sweet EU funding they can suck up to replicate PLTR in service of their sovereignty initiatives.