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Just occured to me that functionally that seems to be their role. Conspiratorially, super troubling. Viewed this way, it's essentially the NSA without political oversight (what little the NSA had to begin with).

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It would be more accurate to say that Palantir functionally runs the intelligence agencies of every country it embeds itself in.

Just not 'officially'.

Welcome to the cyberpunk dystopia, corporations run everything, nation-states are basically just bureaucracies and propoganda devices, with guns.

Of course we've had PMCs for quite a while now, so corpos have the guns too.

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Far more than just intelligence agencies, that was one part of their original plan and it has expanded exponentially. Look at how the US just gave them control of the entire food supply.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Law Enforcement / Police... yep.

Their business model is 'be Skynet'.

... and it is working.

[–] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Skynet launched already, there just was no countdown.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I missed the food part. Can you elaborate or share a link about it?

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Handling payments/"farm security" for USDA now. Whole-ass press release about being proud to defend the breadbaskest of the fatherland. I'm sleepy but "palantir usda" should get you there

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Great. Thanks, I'll check it out.