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Where does Palantir get the data from to begin with? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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They don't have a social media service, right? So where do they get the data to train their AI models ? Surely they need a lot, right? It would be nice if the public knew who cooperates with them (other than governments) and just boycott their services, or at least pressure them.

If company X doesn't offer your data to governments officials, but offers them to Palantir which makes a profile of you that it offer to the same officials, isn't that even worse ?

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[–] undertow411@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean you shouldn’t work for them to begin with for a thousand moral reasons.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what confuses me. How do you have enough moral character to quit over the CEO's support of Israel but you're totally fine with the core business model of surveillance state services.

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 6 points 2 weeks ago

Mass surveillance is bad, but I'm not sure there's a crime worse than genocide.