Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more
It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
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Yes. Palantirians genuinely wrestle with the ethics of what we do. And Palantir's leadership gives us the space to have those discussions. …
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At an internal AMA, Palantir's own privacy and civil liberties employee said a “sufficiently malicious customer is basically impossible to prevent” - only controllable through auditing after the fact. That is the answer the company gave its own employees about the limits of its […
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@arstechnica The original Palantir mission: prevent terrorism without eroding civil liberties. The current internal assessment from their own privacy team: a malicious customer cannot be stopped in real time - only audited afterward. ICE tracking. An elementary school. A seven-da…
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NEW: Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys — Interviews with current and former Palantir employees …