Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients
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#2Reads like the intro to "Person of Interest". This capability has been on the 'want list' for ARPA forever, and I first heard about it as the "total information awareness" program. Mining deep sources of periodic data can be very very enlightening with respect to people's activity. Too bad these guys aren't subject to federal oversight with respect to personal privacy rights.
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#3Never trust investors with private info.
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#4Nothing too interesting revealed in the document. Here is a video of the LAPD talking about more specific uses of Palantir,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-u7yDwC6g
Here is an interesting video from them talking about data analysis of Iranian arms deals used to show off some of their tools used by the intelligence community
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#6First screenshot shows a system running Windows XP. Not a good sign that a product serving such confidential information is running on an operating system no longer supported with security patches.
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#7It is a bit ironic that Peter Thiel is backing Palantir, and is the biggest investor in the marijuana trade. They seem like opposite ends of the spectrum.
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#8These guys? http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/11/palanti...
Well they apologised, I guess. No resignations, no charges, no referring evidence to police. But yeah, they did apologise for it, so they got that going for them.
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#9They're looking for a round of funding so of course it was "leaked".
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#10It is a bit ironic that Peter Thiel is backing Palantir, and is the biggest investor in the marijuana trade. They seem like opposite ends of the spectrum.
Backing? He was a founder.