alt Hacker News> This isn’t accurate, Palantir business model includes mass surveillance for military/security purposes;
You realize that this is not mutually exclusive with what I just wrote?
Palantir builds software for military and security purposes. But the customers don't give this data to Palantir, custody of this data remains with the customer.
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Even if Palantir only "processes" the data you have to assume they are making their own copies of it if they want to
It's not like tech companies deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to trust anymore, if they ever did
> Palantir builds software for military and security purposes. But the customers don't give this data to Palantir, custody of this data remains with the customer.
How is that possible if Palantir software runs on machines Palantir controls?
Heh, the fact that they aren’t mutually exclusive is the problem. Why give someone with mass surveillance ops in other domains access to yet another domain?