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crimsoneer 3 hours ago

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toofy an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> has anybody found any evidence..or are we just speculating?

that’s what the article is discussing? the journalists found evidence.

i’m confused what you’re confused about.

this whole entire comment section is birthed from the evidence someone found.

	▲	remarkEon 38 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Did you read the article? There's no evidence cited in it at all. This comment thread made me think "wow, Palantir must be selling PHI to the mob" or something, and The Intercept has the receipts, but the article simply states that Palantir has a contract to run medicaid billing. It then goes on to say that Palantir also works with other government agencies like ICE (bad), and the Israelis (worse than ICE), and the UK (they've crossed the line now!) It's entirely left up to the reader to fill in the blanks that whatever is going on with this contract is nefarious and bad. The Intercept used to do good work, but this article is complete trash. At least the author was self aware enough to reference the 2016 reporting.
	▲	crimsoneer an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sorry, where? Maybe I've missed something, but the article is just about their health business growing in New York rather than an illegal data backdoors?

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coliveira 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They don't need a backdoor, the whole company is a backdoor receiving sensitive information from governments 24x7.

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jonnybgood 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So Palantir receives info from governments only to… hand it back to them? It seems like most people really don’t know what Palantir actually does and are just speculating.

	▲	coliveira an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No, we know very well how they operate. They're paid to get all kinds of sensitive information from governments and other institutions around the world and store it in their very "secure" data centers. Once there, the US government can easily get any of that information for "national security reasons", because how would they say otherwise, and the Israeli government can do the same as well without even announcing anything, because how would the US government ever say "no" to them... It's all just obvious at this point.