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Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin - 5 octobre 2020
Both companies leverage vast amounts of data for unprecedented surveillance
If you know the name Palantir, you probably know that it’s associated with Peter Thiel, that it contracts with defense and law enforcement agencies, and that it works with data somehow, including data from surveillance systems. You might (...)
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Alex Karp, unconventional purveyor of powerful surveillance tools - 4 octobre 2020
Trained philosopher has brought controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir to market
There is little of the conventional about Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir, the Big Data company that has become a bête noire of privacy and civil liberties activists for its work for the national security establishment.
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« Avec la cotation en Bourse de Palantir, c’est la science-fiction qui entre à Wall Street » - 2 octobre 2020
Du fait de ses performances financières, de son éthique et de sa gouvernance, le spécialiste américain de l’analyse de données ne devrait pas se retrouver sur un marché public, estime Philippe Escande, éditorialiste économique du « Monde ».
Pertes & profits. Dans le monde magique du Seigneur des anneaux, le palantir est (...)
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Palantir Shares Up in Wall Street Debut - 30 septembre 2020
The Silicon Valley company leads a wave of tech outfits hoping to test the public markets in the busiest season for I.P.O.s in two decades.
Palantir Technologies, a company that helps government agencies analyze vast amounts of digital data, saw its shares jump in its Wall Street debut on Wednesday in a sign of (...)
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Palantir Contracts Raise Human Rights Concerns before Direct Listing - 30 septembre 2020
In advance of the direct listing of Palantir Technologies, Inc. on the New York Stock Exchange on September 29, Amnesty International released today a new briefing, Failing to Do Right : The Urgent Need for Palantir to Respect Human Rights, where the organization concludes that Palantir is failing to conduct human (...)
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Palantir Expected to Be Valued at Nearly $22 Billion in Trading Debut - 28 septembre 2020
Bankers have told investors stock could start trading at around $10, sources say
Palantir Technologies Inc. is expected to fetch a lofty valuation in its transition to a public company despite an unusually aggressive governance structure, in the latest sign of investors’ voracious appetite for new shares.
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Big Data has allowed ICE to dramatically expand its deportation efforts. - 25 septembre 2020
A New Mexico man gets a call from federal child welfare officials. His teenage brother has arrived alone at the border after traveling 2,000 miles to escape a violent uncle in Guatemala. The officials ask him to take custody of the boy. He hesitates ; he is himself undocumented. The officials say not to worry. He (...)
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Digital Contact Tracing is The New “Smart” Frontier of Urban Surveillance - 18 septembre 2020
As one of the most widely touted solutions for the coronavirus era, digital contact tracing has prompted intense praise and pushback alike, leading critics to warn of an impending "surveillance state". But this surveillance state is already here.
The ongoing pandemic, coupled with economic chaos and a (...)
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Palantir, le géant de la surveillance aux profits fantômes. - 15 septembre 2020
L’introduction en bourse de la firme fondée par Peter Thiel approche, mais les investisseurs doutent.
Proche de la CIA, en relation avec la DGSI, fondée par un soutien de Donald Trump, l’entreprise Palantir s’est forgé une réputation sulfureuse en signant des contrats de surveillance avec les armées et polices du monde (...)
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AI is a totalitarian’s dream – here’s how to take power back - 15 septembre 2020
Soon artificial intelligence looks set to know us better than we know ourselves. But it will all be for our own good, right ? Simon McCarthy-Jones explores the ramifications in a curated piece originally published by The Conversation.
Individualistic western societies are built on the idea that no one knows our (...)
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Palantir filed to go public. The firm’s unethical technology should horrify us - 4 septembre 2020
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
In 2017, the Trump administration first set its sights on a target it would return to repeatedly in the coming years : immigrant children.
Thousands of kids were crossing the border alone, (...)
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Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing - 3 septembre 2020
In June 2020, Santa Cruz, California became the first city in the United States to ban municipal use of predictive policing, a method of deploying law enforcement resources according to data-driven analytics that supposedly are able to predict perpetrators, victims, or locations of future crimes. Especially (...)
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Palantir Says Faulty AI and Privacy Regulation Are a Risk to the Company - 28 août 2020
Palantir has never made a profit, and according to its S-1 filing, may never make a profit. But it has no plans to stop now.
Palantir, a Denver-based surveillance firm that contracts with commercial firms and government agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, published its public filing (...)
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Clearview AI, le cauchemar de la reconnaissance faciale devient réalité - 20 août 2020
Imaginée et financée par des personnalités de la droite américaine radicale, l’application de la société Clearview AI permet d’identifier une personne en comparant une photo à toutes celles, publiques, postées sur Internet. Alors que le logiciel était utilisé secrètement par des policiers et des entreprises, la société vient (...)
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Big Tech Makes Inroads With the Biden Campaign - 15 août 2020
While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups.
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been critical of Big Tech, admonishing Facebook for mishandling misinformation and saying (...)
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Now Is the Time to Dismantle Our Cities’ Invasive Surveillance Infrastructure - 30 juin 2020
Not all innovation deserves to exist — many surveillance and policing technologies should never have been created in the first place
It may have sounded radical when Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft announced they were either exiting the facial recognition market or enacting moratoriums on providing such software to (...)
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Démanteler les infrastructures de surveillance et de discrimination massives ? - 30 juin 2020
Si les annonces de moratoires dans le domaine de la reconnaissance faciale semblent soulager un certain nombre de ses opposants, il ne fait aucun doute que ces réponses des grandes entreprises de la technologie demeurent manifestement des décisions commerciales calculées et limitées qui répondent avec plus ou moins de (...)
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FBI Expands Ability to Monitor Social Media, Location Data - 28 juin 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be watching what you tweet and where people gather.
The federal law enforcement agency’s records show a growing focus on harnessing the latest private sector tools for mass surveillance, including recent contracts with companies that monitor social media posts and collect (...)
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Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign - 27 juin 2020
In the run-up to the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is putting together a foreign policy team for a potential future administration. Among those described as being part of the team is Avril Haines, former deputy director of the CIA during the Obama administration. According to an NBC News (...)
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High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach - 21 juin 2020
Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filled social media feeds. Meanwhile, police surveillance of protesters has remained largely out of sight.
Local, state and federal law enforcement organizations (...)
