{"id":5331,"date":"2013-08-15T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2013-08-15T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:56:08","slug":"how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5331","title":{"rendered":"How A &#8216;Deviant&#8217; Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2013\/08\/14\/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut\/\">Andy Greenberg and Ryan Mac<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest problem for Palantir\u2019s business may be just how well its software works: It helps its customers see too much. In the wake of NSA leaker Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations of the agency\u2019s mass surveillance, Palantir\u2019s tools have come to represent privacy advocates\u2019 greatest fears of data-mining technology \u2014 Google-level engineering applied directly to government spying. That combination of Big Brother and Big Data has come into focus just as Palantir is emerging as one of the fastest-growing startups in the Valley, threatening to contaminate its first public impressions and render the firm toxic in the eyes of customers and investors just when it needs them most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re in a scary business,\u201d says Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Lee Tien. ACLU analyst Jay Stanley has written that Palantir\u2019s software could enable a \u201ctrue totalitarian nightmare, monitoring the activities of innocent Americans on a mass scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karp, a social theory Ph.D., doesn\u2019t dodge those concerns. He sees Palantir as the company that can rewrite the rules of the zero-sum game of privacy and security. \u201cI didn\u2019t sign up for the government to know when I smoke a joint or have an affair,\u201d he acknowledges. In a company address he stated, \u201cWe have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we\u2019d like to be.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Greenberg and Ryan Mac: The biggest problem for Palantir\u2019s business may be just how well its software works: It helps its customers see too much. In the wake of NSA leaker Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations of the agency\u2019s mass surveillance, Palantir\u2019s tools have come to represent privacy advocates\u2019 greatest fears of data-mining technology \u2014 Google-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}