They’re a data analytics platform: www.palantir.com/docs They got in close with the intelligence agencies early on and have some big money with connections behind them.

From what I’ve seen, though, they don’t “have your data” as that’s not their thing. A government that does have your data could use their analytics tools to do some highly dodgy stuff, though, which is why they’re popular with governments and feared by everyone else.

From what I’ve seen, though, they don’t “have your data” as that’s not their thing.

That’s what they claim, and yet people were able to hack their Discord age verification tech and discover otherwise. Where have you even heard this, because I hope it’s not from their CEO, He often goes on religiously fueled technofeudalist rants about the antichrist, the end of the world, and the justification for unified warrant-less mass surveillance of it all.

Other commenters have addressed the Discord question - it sounds like that was a completely separate company and technology (just the same investors).

And no, I didn’t get any info from Thiel or Karp.

Ah, yes, that completely separate company where one of the biggest investors is from a fund belonging to Peter Thiel. Completely separate.