Palantir: On Business, Cults, and Politics

Byrne Hobart: Palantir’s relationship to privacy is highly dependent on exactly where you draw the creepy line. They collect data to make inferences about behavior, and in their intelligence work that means collecting data to identify potential terrorists. Their users certainly consume more data than they would with a manual counterterrorism approach, but the outcome … Continue reading Palantir: On Business, Cults, and Politics