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Palantir — a CIA-backed startup created, in part, by PayPal’s billionaire co-founder Peter Thiel in 2004 — is a little-known tool that’s changing the world right under our noses.
Once used to predict roadside bombs in Iraq based on patterns of previous deployment, Palantir is now being deployed here at home for everything from law enforcement to finance.
The tool currently resides in a nondescript building on a back street in Palo Alto, California. From the outside, you might not think much of it. Inside, the technology is protected by walls that are impenetrable by radio waves, phone signals, or internet: its only means of entry secured with advanced biometrics, and pass codes held by dozens of independent parties whose identities are protected by blockchain technology.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: alphabetaone
'Palantir'? Does that mean we get to call Langley 'Mordor'?
originally posted by: alphabetaone
Can anyone imagine the types of corruption that can be involved by implementing (woooops it already has been implemented) such a pre-cognition algorithm would ensue?
We're worried about Voter Fraud when there's this? Make sure you don't go outside dressed in a way that this algorithm would predict the person wearing who commits a crime that day would be wearing....you'd have a bad day.
In CS circles, Palantir has been well known for many years now.
When we think of national security in the private sector, what comes to mind is career people who have proven for decades that they can keep secrets and take it seriously. At Palantir, people learned the secrets and left within 6 months. It's quite a security risk now, because at some point people are going to talk if they haven't yet.
originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: alphabetaone
Don't see the big deal it doesn't predict anything. What it does is look for patterns in information. Same thing us humans have been doing since we first appeared on the planet. Are brains are wired to look for patterns even where they don't exist.
originally posted by: Aazadan
This all brings up an interesting point to think about. When we think of national security in the private sector, what comes to mind is career people who have proven for decades that they can keep secrets and take it seriously. At Palantir, people learned the secrets and left within 6 months. It's quite a security risk now, because at some point people are going to talk if they haven't yet.