Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/leaked-palantir-gotham.html
“The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives.”
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"and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives.”
well - then the jokes on them - poor bastards.
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Type the reason for the search in the Search Purpose field. This could be … a suspect (sic) name. This part is required.
So they need to put in a reason for the search (which is good), but are advised that this can be just the same name that they’re searching (which means that there is little to no oversight).
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Obligatory reminder that Palantir’s founder is Peter Thiel, who’s placed a lot of money on both president* Biff’s regime and on the neoReactionary sector of the alt-right. Palantir fits into a larger vision.
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I can’t help but wonder if, each time an officer launches the software, they think to themself, “I’m Batman!”
“Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous.”
“This is wrong.”
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