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Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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Canary Islands are part of Spain and probably unaffected from climate change - we have 19-22°C all year round. If it raises to 25° still pretty livable.

and probably unaffected from climate change No place is unaffected.

Most places will be unaffected. It'll only affect places where humans are, and we're not even close to filling up the planet

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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They seem to have been granting contracts to manage all kinds of critical data to Huawei's Palantir equivalent lately, so it's probably less about security risks and more about the current source of the bribe money. If they cared about security they would not outsource this kind of stuff to foreign companies. Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?

>Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it? The data may be safer with the CCP, at least they won't lose it.

Dunno, losing it maybe safer from a citizen's POV.

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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People in the comments here are praising the move, so presumably something is public. I've googled but I can't see some specific breach or documented misuse. Is the objection to Palantir strictly political?

There's been a lot of recent scandals going public against the social democratic party ruling on spain now (PSOE) and its previous dirigents. See Zapatero case. leaked by US agencies recently once Spain put some kind of friction to the Rota south spain bases getting involved on anything vs Iran. The president P. Sanchez, has been clearly antagonizing Trump in these and other intl issues (even if only visible in spain…

OK so this is not specific to Palantir, but about entrusting sensitive Spanish data to any US based company. If so, that makes sense.

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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Just came back from Japan and I found it vibrant and modern.

Did you visit the countryside? Japan has an aging problem and a big misogyny problem too.

Literally every country has a countryside problem. From US to Russia to Asia to any country in Europe.

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> I can't figure out what the specific objection to Palantir is. You have to be trolling, a single online search tells you how the company CEO is the textbook definition of technofascism. Take a look at his manifesto if you don’t know

So the objections to Palantir are political? I know nothing about Spanish politics so I assume that makes sense in the Spanish political context. This helps explain why I can't find a specific concrete concern, it sounds more vibes-based. Thank you!

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.

And then you'll have to choose another country after the next elections. Or even before, cause liking politicians from afar somehow much easier than when living in the same country.

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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> I can't figure out what the specific objection to Palantir is. You have to be trolling, a single online search tells you how the company CEO is the textbook definition of technofascism. Take a look at his manifesto if you don’t know

What is this in reference to? Karp has said that US tech companies should be more willing to work with military and intelligence agencies. By that standard, though, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, heck even Microsoft are all supporters of "technofascism".

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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At this point, can you tell me one non corrupt government? At least they are doing stuff for the people

Define doing. The government is completely block from legislating since the coalition parties will not approve any law, only those that can help their separatist movements. The national budget hasn't been renewed since 2023, affecting new projects. What we have is a corrupt president and party he'll bent on remaining as long as possible to not face the polls

There are two takes here (and I'm impartial because I no longer live in Spain):

- The government lost their trust and should resign. - The coalition parties are sabotaging the government even when none had the majority (even if together they do).

Either way, fuck Palantir

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