Yes, while a tyrannical government that violates the law and searches and seizes without probable cause and a warrant are realities that we should be concerned about, there is a tremendous threat coming from a company called Palantir, which is backed by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Palantir presents themselves as "We build products that make people better at their most important work — the kind of work you read about on the front page of the newspaper, not just the technology section."
Indeed, we have read about some of their work on the front page of the newspaper, including the trial of the Oregon protests of 2016, where Palantir software was used to aid in sorting data for the FBI's information they gathered from Facebook.
The CIA itself was an early investor in the startup through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s venture capital branch.
Palantir has landed “at least $1.2 billion” in federal contracts since 2009, according to an August 2016 report in Politico, but will not release the names of its government clientele.
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