Is palantir just a unifying api to google search history emails and Facebook messages and activities?
I’m guessing it’s a query, background job, data request to these traitorous citizen civil liberty betraying American companies, comes back unifies the data set then allows you to run a needle haystack search on it?
downrightmike · 39m ago
The suck up everything. Probably also got all the gov't restricted data from DOGE. The gov't does store vast amounts of encrypted comms to decrypt later in secret datacenters. And then there's prism. They are afraid of normal people, its McCarthy hunting Reds while high on coke raised to the next power
Spooky23 · 3h ago
A: By acting in contempt of the law.
bobbane · 2h ago
Only partially. As long as the third-party doctrine is valid in the US, they can claim that they're just integrating data from private companies with existing government records.
And those third party companies can, if they choose, tell Palantir to pound sand if they don't have warrants.
The real problem is those third parties know a LOT about us, and it's essentially impossible to opt out of their data gathering. License plate scanners and credit bureaus, anyone?
coldtea · 1h ago
>And those third party companies can, if they choose, tell Palantir to pound sand if they don't have warrants.
And then those third party companies, if they're interesting enough to Palantic or those using Palantir, might get cancelled state contracts, or surprise tax audits, and other pressures... totally unrelated "of course"
0points · 3h ago
One of the most elusive big companies today, imo.
The CEO was present on the most recent Bilderberg meeting.
sporkxrocket · 1h ago
Worth watching the interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp where he's confronted about their role in the genocide of Palestinians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mhNLTy5pbQ
thegainz · 1h ago
Ew, even his response is so gross. Blames Palestinians for their own genocide and casually dehumanizes the protestor.
greenie_beans · 39m ago
evil company ran by an evil man
reilly3000 · 55m ago
I for one support our frontline data warriors. They are doing God’s work. Please don’t send a kill drone after me. I was drunk when I said the other stuff, not thinking correctly. It will never happen again.
AIorNot · 2h ago
I mean look at the name of the company for pete's sake: Palantir? Sauron indeed..so much of the valley is enabling the surveillance state at all levels of society.
Silicon valley was supposed to do no evil, no wonder this generation hates tech bros
anthem2025 · 2h ago
lol, Silicon Valley has always been evil.
LastTrain · 1h ago
/Almost/ always
coldtea · 1h ago
I'll give you Xerox.
The rest ...
themafia · 37m ago
Silicon valley is a place.
Government contracting is an activity.
The two should be very far apart and yet somehow they're joined at the hip.
scottyah · 1m ago
Government contracting is the only reason silicon valley exists. It'd just be another valley.
yesbut · 3h ago
What a garbage company pushing this precrime crap. No thanks.
ChrisArchitect · 3h ago
Techdirt was a repost of a The Conversation article from August.
Very cool how we’re letting a private company become the modern day SS. Especially hilarious when the dude in charge literally grew up in an ex-Nazi stronghold in Namibia.
Should be an absolute red mark to have this company or any affiliated with it in your CV. Absolutely anti-societal.
Xmd5a · 1h ago
>Should be an absolute red mark to have this company or any affiliated with it in your CV. Absolutely anti-societal.
The seeds of the surveillance apparatus are already present in what you prescribe.
And those third party companies can, if they choose, tell Palantir to pound sand if they don't have warrants.
The real problem is those third parties know a LOT about us, and it's essentially impossible to opt out of their data gathering. License plate scanners and credit bureaus, anyone?
And then those third party companies, if they're interesting enough to Palantic or those using Palantir, might get cancelled state contracts, or surprise tax audits, and other pressures... totally unrelated "of course"
The CEO was present on the most recent Bilderberg meeting.
Silicon valley was supposed to do no evil, no wonder this generation hates tech bros
The rest ...
Government contracting is an activity.
The two should be very far apart and yet somehow they're joined at the hip.
Some more discussion on a related story then:
What does Palantir actually do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894910
Thanks, redirected from https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/11/how-palantir-is-mapping-...
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Should be an absolute red mark to have this company or any affiliated with it in your CV. Absolutely anti-societal.
The seeds of the surveillance apparatus are already present in what you prescribe.
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