[HN Gopher] Revealed: Palantir's Top-Secret User Manual for Cops...
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       Revealed: Palantir's Top-Secret User Manual for Cops (2019)
        
       Author : DyslexicAtheist
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-12-28 21:20 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | royletron wrote:
       | It's sort of impressive really...
        
       | warning26 wrote:
       | I always would see Palantir at career fairs, and I always
       | wondered what, exactly, their software looked like.
       | 
       | This seems...relatively innocuous? Just a database browser with a
       | very okay UX.
        
         | TameAntelope wrote:
         | I ran a booth at UMD near theirs back in like... 2014?, and
         | holy shit did they have a huge line. They were giving away _so_
         | much swag, it was not sane.
         | 
         | We had ~5 resumes dropped off, I assume Palantir had ~200. I
         | don't even remember seeing a Google or Apple booth, I assume
         | mostly because this was east coast and on Palantir's "home"
         | turf (for fed contracts at least), among other things.
        
           | woodruffw wrote:
           | Hah. If it was 2014, I was probably at that fair.
           | 
           | I was ignorant of Palantir at the time, but I wonder now if
           | the lines/excitement were because they were the "cool" (read
           | with dripping sarcasm) defense contractor among the stodgy
           | ones (LM, Raytheon, and all the other beltway bandits).
           | 
           | I don't recall an Apple booth, but I _do_ remember a Google
           | one. IIRC, they were off in a corner.
        
           | dvngnt_ wrote:
           | I went to their event for free pizza
        
         | greyface- wrote:
         | Just like XKEYSCORE!
        
           | warning26 wrote:
           | I guess the problem with XKEYSCORE was the data that it was
           | browsing should have been private -- isn't everything we're
           | seeing here pretty normal as far as police data goes? (Arrest
           | records, etc?)
        
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             | actually_a_dog wrote:
             | The objection here has always been that having this amount
             | of data about people, all aggregated in a central location,
             | is what's harmful.
        
         | actually_a_dog wrote:
         | What more do you need? The value is in the data. All you need
         | to be able to do is to be able to efficiently add to and query
         | the database.
        
       | actually_a_dog wrote:
       | (2019)
        
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