"One sticking point, however, is who’s backing the company: Peter Thiel, the cofounder of ICE-approved surveillance firm Palantir."

This article is entirely motivated by left-wing politics. It's that simple. I just wish they would come out and say it instead of pretending it's about privacy.

If a company that wasn't owned by a guy that is associated as right-wing was doing the same thing, this article wouldn't be sitting here.

The Epstein guilt by association parts? Yeah, that creep was a hyper networker and leveraged that as a tactic.

And in SV, nobody is in those files more than Reid Hoffman.

He didn't just go to the island dozens of times he went to the ranch.

But he donates money to the Democratic Party and is anti-Trump so we don't see articles on HN smearing everything connected to him, do we?

It's all politics. All of this.

It is a constant stream of political activism masquerading as journalism. It's like this all over the SV tech space.

You should seriously consider believing Mr. Thiel when he named the company Palantir.