Palantir is one of the world's most controversial technology companies. Its extraordinary growth was steered by a revolving door of executives moving between Palantir and the corridors of power in Was
Palantir doesn't surveil, they make tools make sense of surveillance data. Surveillance platforms include phones and computers where users are blissfully unaware of the privacy they forfeited by default or by neglecting permissions.
It is important to recognize that state intervention and the separation of families by the UK government predates modern technology companies like Palantir. Historical records show that the Poor Law of 1834 mandated the strict segregation of families in workhouses. Furthermore, between the 1860s and 1970, the government facilitated the forced migration of approximately 130,000 children to Commonwealth nations. From 1949 to 1976, state and religious institutions also oversaw the forced adoptions of roughly 185,000 babies. The infrastructure of state control has existed for centuries, well before the digital data systems debated today.
One of the many inaccuracies in this video...Palantir does not collect data, their customers collect data and Palantir shows their customers how to do something useful with that data.
In the late Seventies there was a bumper sticker that said More Nukes less Kooks.The Kukes won that round,who was ultimately right, it was not the Kooks, the need for cleaner power has never been greater.The same principal should been applied here the need for Palantir data protects us all from the Kooks.
Maybe the government should be more concerned about how the UK biobank data appeared for sale in China on Alibaba. Maybe it's something to do with how it's so common for academics in UK universities to misuse UK biobank data, from downloading it into their personal devices to sharing it with people that don't have permission to access it. And you want to talk about Palantir? Give me a break
There are videos on YouTube of Larry Ellison stating that tech companies need to access private data to train AI models now that they have usurped the public data from the internet
Ignorance lead to doubts. Doubts lead to fear. Fear leads to the abandonment of the best the tools to improve work efficiency and save money for the government.
Here are the timestamps for the video’s key content.
00:00 Intro
00:58 Palantir under pressure
04:32 The origin story
05:39 Palantir's platforms
07:56 Palantir the defence contractor
09:23 Government and company contracts
10:16 The Palantir 'manifesto'
12:19 The tech company for the Trump age
14:22 The revolving door
15:44 How the UK welcomed Palantir with open arms
18:16 How Palantir won contracts with the NHS
20:23 The procurement process
23:45 Patient data is a trust issue
27:23 Palantir's future
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00:00 Intro
00:58 Palantir under pressure
04:32 The origin story
05:39 Palantir's platforms
07:56 Palantir the defence contractor
09:23 Government and company contracts
10:16 The Palantir 'manifesto'
12:19 The tech company for the Trump age
14:22 The revolving door
15:44 How the UK welcomed Palantir with open arms
18:16 How Palantir won contracts with the NHS
20:23 The procurement process
23:45 Patient data is a trust issue
27:23 Palantir's future