Worse than Cambridge Analytica…

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  • May 10, 2018 at 8:02 pm #86056
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    Worse than Cambridge Analytica:https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2018/05/09/if-you-thought-cambridge-analytica-was-scary-well-this-lots-fcking-terrifying/

    There’s a data analysis company that is far bigger and possibly far scarier than Cambridge Analytica (CA). You’ve probably never heard of it. Yet this US company is already implicated in UK intelligence gathering and European-wide projects.
    Palantir

    Palantir was co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel. Thiel is a board member and major investor of Facebook and was a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team.

    Recently, Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was questioned in a US Senate hearing about Palantir, though he gave little away:
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    Palantir first came to public attention thanks to investigations by US journalist Barrett Brown just prior to his arrest and imprisonment. Brown discovered that Palantir, HBGary Federal (later rebranded as CounterTack), and Berico were part of a dirty tricks campaign [pdf, p14] to discredit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald….see link

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