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The UK doesn’t have a written constitution, it does have one though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
Right but if you read that page you quickly come to the quote "Parliament can make or unmake any law". Technically there is judicial review now, so there is some restrictions, but not like in a USA style constitution.
The history of Palantir: Christine Maxwell and Alan Wade found Chiliad, a database surveillance application that was used in the FBI. Then Alan Wade became CIO at the CIA. Then In-Q-Tel (CIA) co-founded Palantir with Thiel. Karp, who was at Haverford college with Epstein's neighbor Lutnick, became the philosophical ideologue for Palantir. With these overt and easily verifiable connections it is beyond belief that any…
Germany's PM was formerly at BlackRock. What exactly do you find so hard to believe?
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I think there is a minimum standard of being informed before you can start to question others. Thiel is on the record in many ways that would justify the GPs statement. Yes, it is fair to say basically no one should be trusted with large piles of government data, but this holds more true for the the likes of Thiel who have indicated that they are willing to abuse such access.
> Thiel is on the record in many ways that would justify the GPs statement. Thiel is on the record saying he would use the data to make health and security worse? On the record saying he would abuse access? AFAICT this is not true.
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
For a guy with his access to data, yes, that makes everybody's security worse.
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How is this not shut down in any form? This is actual insanity.
Why is it any of our business what this guy says in his free time if it's not advocating for violence?
Why do the worst companies have the best names.
Palantir isn't a good name. It's a disastrously bad one, if you ask me. It's a constant scandal as every five minutes somebody gets the bright idea that "ackshually the Palantir were a tool for evil made by a demon!!" They're never able to live it down. It always comes up. And it makes them seem, in a way, careless.
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> Thiel is on the record in many ways that would justify the GPs statement. Thiel is on the record saying he would use the data to make health and security worse? On the record saying he would abuse access? AFAICT this is not true.
I'll just give you one, and you can google for others: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." For a guy with his access to data, yes, that makes everybody's security worse.
Edit: Also, that quote does not provide evidence that he is "on the record" saying he would abuse access or make health or security worse.
Can someone explain why Palantir are seen as such a threat? My understanding is their product is a PowerBI++ and they don't host any user data themselves. Are people scared of backdoors?