Exactly. Palantir is American terrorism and infiltration.
And yet governments are trying to buy palantir access. There should be more opposition.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
And yet governments are trying to buy palantir access. There should be more opposition.
Exactly. Palantir is American terrorism and infiltration.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Yeah, the government’s big shift from “spy on our citizens” to “create a private corporation and pay them to spy on our citizens” was largely driven by public scrutiny. Governments realized that people were watching what they did online. And rather than stop encroaching on peoples’ privacy, the various governments simply shifted towards hiring private contractors to do it for them.
A giant “Spy Agency To Definitely Spy On All Of Our Own Citizens: Fifty Bajillion Dollars” line item on the government budget looks bad when lawmakers go to vote on it. But that same fifty bajillion dollars allocated to “Private Government Contractor 19452046” looks a lot better on paper.