This is something I have been confused as for a while, the article makes it sound like Palantir collects/harvest data, but they don’t? and companies that use it have said that they basically don’t collect data, it all stays within the companies boundaries:
In an emailed statement to Al Jazeera, it said that “customers own and control their data”.
Palantir’s software helps them “integrate and analyse their existing data sets,” the company said, adding: “Palantir never uses or retains customer data for its own purposes.”
Schwarz, at Queen Mary University London, said Palantir does not need to possess the data to benefit from it. “Rather, it works with the data that is made available,” she said.
A pact with the devil :/
The military industrial complex making bank off the death of the Ukranians. Fuck Russia in the ass with a hot poker, but the world’s milquetoast sanctions on Russia has allowed the war to drag on in the name of selling weapons and harvesting data for the new drone warfare frontier.
Yeah this war is Russia’s doing but the way many western countries are helping is lackluster. It’s like if you help a person in need vs if you try to make content of helping a person in need… Making content from it is immoral but doesn’t necessarily make you at fault for them needing help.
but shareholder value might drop if the war ends, we can’t have that!
