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When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data (theconversation.com)
submitted 2 days ago by flango@lemmy.eco.br to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

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[–] etherphon@piefed.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Those of you of a certain age like myself have to feel like you are eating crazy pills at the current state of things, it's almost like they are building some kind of... new.. world.. order. Something they fucking were talking about being some evil government/Democrat plot for decades now. What a ride. Did not see Trump at the head of it though.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He isn't at the head of it. He's the figurehead, at best. But dark fucking times are upon us.

I hate being so doomy about it, but damn, just look around. Is there anything that seems stable and moving in the right direction at all, ANYWHERE?

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago

Of course there's always lots of cool stuff going on in the fringes but as far as mainstream society goes with this consolidation of power and wealth and so many mergers eating up any decent competition it does seem pretty bleak. I've pretty much eschewed any new stuff from big tech for a while now, it's was very sad to watch the web turn into a place of such open and creative expression into what it is today full of rigid standards, bloated frameworks, bots, AI, endless advertising, bland design, spam, spam, spam, bacon, eggs and spam.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

Yes! It’s absolutely a new world order they are building. I wish those of us that see it were better grouped up at this point to share information and get a clearer understanding.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't get it.

Others have paid billions in fines. Facebook, Cambridge Analytica for example. And we thought they were the super villains already.

These super villains here are doing the same, and worse, and they do it in the open, and they go free, and they are even praised for it.

A toast: Let's all puke on them!

[–] Mora@pawb.social 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And worse: other governments are actively buying into this. German officials were shocked when by Cambridge Analytica, Snowden revelations and even when their phone number on Facebook was leaked. But hey, now that they want to pay for it, they can't be the product, right? Right?🙈

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

It's cuz of pro palestinian sentiments growing in the country. They don't like these analytics companies, but their inner xenophobia trumps it. They have to defend against these filthy immigrants (especially the non-white, non-blue eyes, non-blond ones) from destroying German values. /s

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone want to estimate what are the chances that Peter Thiel isn't illegally handing all that data over to MAGA strategists under the table, in the full knowledge that the worst he could ever get is a trivial fine?

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thiel IS a maga strategist.

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

he wants to Thanos the world

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Stock reddits were hyping it up before wallstreetbets blew up, like the year before some of the california wildfires and cvoid actually

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

This was bad enough for the public sector but giving this task away to evil Silicon Valley billionaires is incredibly stupid.

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Oh no, not "the" government of "the" nation