JOE ALLEN: 9/11 happened, Patriot Act was signed, and the infrastructure built up for decades would be used not just against terrorists overseas, but dissenters on our soil. Fast forward to 2020: biosurveillance, contact tracing, and vaccination ops were facilitated by Palantir through their data analytics.
JOE ALLEN: Artificial intelligence, by way of @PalantirTech surveillance and data analytics coupled with AIs, is leading us to a place in which human beings are less and less involved in what is among the most important and sacred things that people do, which is to eliminate another human life. It may sound horrible to say that’s sacred, but I think anyone with any knowledge of history up to this point would say that warfare is in fact a sacred thing, and it’s being taken away from human beings.
Washington spent decades funding a soft-power apparatus that had quietly lost sight of its own purpose. USAID was conceived as an instrument for winning hearts […] Source
Palantir is battling the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency for the ability to bid for a contract to modernize its data analytics system, according to a filing obtained by Axios. Why it matters: Palantir's already massive foothold at the Pentagon could eventually expand to an agency tasked with providing foreign military intelligence to prevent and win wars. What's inside: Palantir argues in its protest that the DIA is wasting taxpayer money, and flouting the law, by refusing to consider a commercial solution for its data analytics modernization efforts. - The agency launched MARS (Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System) eight years ago and has been developing it ever since to replace a Cold War-era system. - Palantir…
Campaign contributions from Palantir are becoming a thorn in the side of Democrats in the midterms, as lawmakers on the left dig into the Trump administration’s immigration efforts and the controversial tech company’s involvement. Several Democratic candidates have returned or donated funds from top Palantir executives and the company’s political action committee (PAC), distancing themselves from the controversy over the firm’s sizable contracts with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Read More: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5813636-palantir-controversy-immigration-democrats/ #democrats #elections #palantir #campaign