RaymondPierreL3Oh, and for a second ‘last’ toot of importance (because privacy if the ‘wind of the round’ — a MahJong term :)) here is an interesting article In the investigative The Nerve. It’s UK oriented, but Palentir is also imbedded here in Australia don’t you know…
“The first, a senior systems engineer with the MoD who has decades of experience across the defence industry, told the Nerve: “Ministers clearly have a lack of understanding of Palantir’s technology. The statements with respect to sovereign data appear to be missing the point entirely. [They’re] missing the realities of data scraping, of aggregation, and the fact that Palantir is building its own rich picture of our nation that they can use for their own ends.”
Palentir denies any security imporpriety, of course they do. Yet they have form:
“The Nerve has identified a previous case in which Palantir claimed proprietary rights to data insights after its contract was cancelled. In the early 2010s, the New York Police Department contracted Palantir to help find high-profile targets using data scraping and analysis. In 2017, it cancelled the contract, but Palantir claimed its platforms – Gotham and Foundry, the same systems used inside the UK government – created a unique ecosystem that sat on top of NYPD data. That meant any analysis derived from those platforms was, they claimed, Palantir’s intellectual property.”
So, better to remain sceptical and do what the Swiss Army did, send Palentir packing.
#UKPol #NationalSecurity #Defence #MetadataAnalysis #Palantir
‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr
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