Palantir is well on its way to conquering Europe. The controversial US tech company has longstanding relationships with many authorities throughout the EU.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/palantir-is-well-on-its-way-to-conquering-europe/
by Ok-Law-3268
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>The software in question is a data analysis tool made by Palantir, a US company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel – an outspoken supporter of US president Donald Trump.
Furthermore:
[[Source](https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117)]
>It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer’s curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant.
>The GFF’s constitutional complaint against the use of Palantir appears to have strong public support. On **German** [online petition platform Campact](https://www.campact.de/datenschutz/peter-thiel-palantir-polizei-software-stoppen-petition/), an appeal for politicians to stop the use of the software in Germany was signed by more than 264,000 people within a week, as of July 30.
There needs to be more citizens movements organised to pressure governments against working with this company.
Is their software even GDPR compliant?
There should be an EU equivalent, none of this kind of thing should be outsourced.
>A raging debate in Germany over the use of software from Palantir, a controversial American tech company, is shedding new light onto how deeply dependent European authorities are on the US.
>But the argument has always been that no homegrown alternative can deliver as much as Palantir’s tools can – which is something that’s nearly impossible to judge from the outside.
Well time to step it up.
Whoever took part in these decisions should be driven out of office.
Might be controversial but I think this is part of the big western push for destroying online privacy. I think they’re gearing up to throw Europe into a war while the US attempts to destroy China, that way they eliminate any possible rivals to the USA for the next century.
This is why all important decisions and public spending has to be done in open, available for scrutinizing and investigation.
As long as politics and business are done behind closed doors, we will just be pawns in someone else’s game. Even with democratically elected politicians.
Please no. We can do better.
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After Zuckerberg and Musk, we bring in Thiel..
Remember Facebook having backdoors? This is on a different level.
I dont understand how you can have a comically evil company called Palantir. i thought stuff like that was reserved for cartoons
To be fair Europe continues to dominate in the fields of expensive clothing and fine cheeses.
They managed three Länder in Germany thus far. Hesse, NRW, Bavaria. BaWü may follow, sadly.
The company and it’s european lackeys (and/or bribed officials assisting them) likely started local because they suspected it would run afoul of federal courts.
Sadly, local Police is more or less untouchable by federal authority. Not least thanks to Bavaria pushing expanded powers for its police.
Federal court took out a provision for automated license plate scanners – and nothing else. Camera drones, facial reg, *preemptive detention without time limit*, warrantless surveillance and wiretaps.
Seems almost tailor made for Palantir.
The company needs to be barred, federally. Then europe wide, these people are a danger to Democracy itself. Thiel himself said as much.
Its shit like this that radicalizes me. I’m not one for violence but goddamn.
What would be a malicious compliance way to follow if they do start dominating in Europe and logging everything like when I search up what’s 9+10?
For my entire life I have been an EU believer, I even defended that we should take the next step and make the EU a single country.
It is incredible how in the last 24 months the EU has managed to convert me into being eurosceptic. I now believe that if there is not a fully redesign of the EU to make it democratic and subject to the citizen will, I am happy with dismantling it.
It is anathema to me how even the most idiotic of folks at national leadership level would support use of any Thiel-run company integration in any European country. It has to be partially an ignorance issue. Please let that be the reason.
isnt that fuckin great…
FUCK NO
The novel 1984 was suppose to be a warning not a goal.
For once it’s not italy, incredible
Stop giving the guy who thinks we shouldn’t have democracy anymore your tax dollars.
Seriously how fucking stupid are we all getting?
1+1=2
There are people, politicians, in charge who have decided to not do enough about climate change and side with the rich in the class war between poor and rich.
These people fully understand what problems we are running into in the coming years, and they are taking precautions.
No one is naive or still hopeful about things to magically turn better. The people who hire companies like this to run security databases are professionals who can calculate cause and effect, actions and consequences. They know where we are heading, they know what must be done – from their perspective – and they will prepare societies for growing tensions, in an attempt to protect the ruling and capital class against the anger and survival needs at the bottom.
George Orwell says I told you so
They’re trying to make 1984 a reality.
Palantir is extremely shady company. Their valuation is complete nonsense from financial point of view, and yet it keeps growing. It’s obvious it is artificially pushed up, and there is only one entity that is willing to put that amount of money into anything without expecting financial gain – government. Which, considering what sort of product Palantir offers, is indeed extremely troubling.
the EU bending to the will of US interest again 😱 how surprising!
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