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Yay! Now you can use your expertise to continue to help Palantir undermine the privacy rights of people all over the globe.

I've always though it was a bit weird that Palantir is a "Luminary Level ($10k+)" supporter of the EFF.

https://www.eff.org/thanks

Exactly what is it that you think Palantir's products do?

Generate SARs (as result of "fusing" and analysis of the data from license plates readers and the likes) Poptip will expand their ability to "fuse" various unstructured data like social feeds and phone conversation transcripts.

And what exactly is it that you think Palantir's products do? :)

Palantir is a private company whose product's development was incubated and developed at taxpayer expense following 9/11 (they essentially researched all of their technologies on the taxpayer dime on govt contracts, then took those technologies and created their product). It's an asshole company that doesn't give a shit about the constitution or human rights.

They also use Congressman Hunter as a paid shill to push their product all over the government as if its a panacea to every data integration issue. Its not.

The set of companies that benefit from taxpayer-funded research is enormous, and it does not follow from membership in that set that a company "doesn't give a shit about the Constitution or human rights".

You didn't answer my question.

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