Palantir’s User Manual for Cops

&gt; &quot;Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir.&quot;<p>Once and for all, it is the policy makers, not the tech industry, who are responsible for these operations. Tech enables people doing things easily, which can be good or evil. It is people, who should decide, be concern and push the lawmakers towards the right&#x2F;justified path.

I&#x27;m mixed on this.<p>I hired a former CIA analyst a few years ago. Part of his job at the CIA was to contribute to the daily briefings provided to president Obama. I asked him how he felt about the ethics of spying on American citizens. He said I wouldn&#x27;t believe the number of threats that were prevented on a daily basis because of the tools and data they have access to. He said they don&#x27;t share the information about what or how many crimes they prevent because it would cause panic. They also don&#x27;t share that information because it would give away how they were uncovering the plans.<p>It seemed like a viable explanation and I don&#x27;t think he had any incentive to embellish...but it also seemed like something big brother would say to get me to give up freedoms.

Would this be all that shocking to the general public? Watch any detective show and the fictional tools there are at least as capable as this real life tool.

I feel so ignorant that I didn&#x27;t know such a company was behind tslint. I wonder what Palantir uses TS for specifically

It blows my mind that Google and Facebook have been demonized by the wider media as &quot;surveillance capitalism&quot; while Palantir, who for all intents and purposes is literally a surveillance tech giant, has largely escaped public consciousness and criticism.

One piece of data they cannot access is firearm ownership. It is illegal to use a computer to store information about guns in America.

What motivates extremely talented tech workers to devote their limited working years to making the world a worse place to live in?

I was under the impression &quot;Gotham&quot; is the name of their NYC office, not a product.