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>Why does the media seem to be publishing so many "well duh" tier articles about various companies at the moment? Did you miss the whole Facebook and election thing?
no I didn't, that's partly what I'm referencing. What specifically are you pointing to?
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Must be a nice way to live, having full faith that your government will always do the right thing. Relaxing.
It's more a matter of focusing the discussion. Once you bring government into it, it makes the conversation a lot more complicated. This is not a complicated issue.
Why isn't there a privacy watchdog that constantly monitors these kind of companies? I also expect this watchdog to test for data leakage from one site/company to another (e.g. by taking on the role of customer). They should do this on a frequent basis. Without this, companies seem to be free to do whatever they want.
This is how the fucking government gets around the Bill of Rights, primarily the 4th. When it's outsourced, you have no rights. Parallel construction needs to be the next addition to the 4th or it's own amendment.
> Aided by as many as 120 “forward-deployed engineers” This term popping up again made me curious. To my surprise, that's not just some overloaded nickname (what's cooler than styling yourself with a military or martial arts term, right?), that's what they are actually called: https://www.palantir.com/careers/teams/forward-deployed-soft...
I’ve always thought - I don’t care if the NSA is spying on US citizens because their job is national security. The problem is when those tools trickle down. All of a sudden you have a local cop with too much time on their hands spying on you. But if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t have anything to hide, right? Isn’t that how the saying goes?
Must be a nice way to live, having full faith that your government will always do the right thing. Relaxing.
The standard for "enemy" could also be as low as they choose it to be, which is also weird that people think the government wouldn't go after them because they are "innocent", as if these people get to decide who is innocent and who isn't.
No, it's the government that does that. Courts may have the final say in the end (unless you're indefinitely detained for multiple years first), but until then the government can do a lot of damage to your life if it comes after you. Even putting you through years of lawsuits, stress and money spent on lawyers would be bad enough. You may win in the end, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
And that's if you don't take their plea deal first when they scare you with multiple bogus charges that you think shouldn't even apply to you but you're too scared of the 50 years in prison sentence they're threatening you with.
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media will do this about every subject, think of it as the original analytics, if the story drew a lot of attention then another story similar to the first story will also draw attention because people will associate it with the original really interesting story that drew all the attention. Sooner or later the quality and interest of the stories on subject X will decline and people will not react so much to them so t…
Here’s the problem with the journalism industry: They love to write about scandals and problems. But if you have an actual solution to the problem, they aren’t going to publish it. You can also see articles on court cases about some scandalous things, but can hardly find out how the case eventually turned out. And so on. Journalism highlights problems not solutions because that’s what gets the most “outrage reshares”…
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>Why does the media seem to be publishing so many "well duh" tier articles about various companies at the moment? Did you miss the whole Facebook and election thing?
no I didn't, that's partly what I'm referencing. What specifically are you pointing to?
> Aided by as many as 120 “forward-deployed engineers” This term popping up again made me curious. To my surprise, that's not just some overloaded nickname (what's cooler than styling yourself with a military or martial arts term, right?), that's what they are actually called: https://www.palantir.com/careers/teams/forward-deployed-soft...
Whilst the article may not have any surprising information for the regular hacker news reader, it may come as a surprise that a non-insurance, non-government business holds more private data about an individual than Facebook does, especially since most individuals will not recall ever interacting with said company. I think it is beneficial if more people become aware of this.
> it may come as a surprise that a non-insurance, non-government business holds more private data about an individual than Facebook does Where in the article is that stated?