On 7-8 May in #Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed #America’s #military industrial complex, its top #technology companies and its most outspoken justifiers of #warcrimes. Of course, that’s not how they would describe it
It was the inaugural “AI Expo for National Competitiveness”, whose lead sponsor was #Palantir, who are currently, supplying some of its #AI products to the #Israel#Defense Forces
'Members of the audience laughed when he mocked fresh graduates of Columbia University, which had some of the earliest encampment protests in the country. He said they’d have a hard time on the job market and described their views as a “pagan religion infecting our universities” and “an infection inside of our society”. (He’s made these comments before.)
“The peace activists are war activists,” Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”'
'As the moderator asked general questions about the panelists’ views on the future of war, Schmidt and Cohen answered cautiously. But Karp, who’s known as a provocateur, aggressively condoned violence, often peering into the audience with hungry eyes, palpably desperate for claps, boos or shock.'
> „[N]atürlich kann die @bfdi weder den Streit zwischen dem Justiz- & dem Innenministerium um die #Vorratsdatenspeicherung entscheiden noch den um (…) #BigData und Diensten wie #Palantir durch Polizeibehörden. Aber sie kann und muss die @Bundesregierung an die Maßgaben der Verfassungsgerichte erinnern – und im Zweifelsfall stärker als ihre Vorgänger:innen mit Anordnungen gegen unrechtmäßige Datenpraktiken staatlicher Stellen vorgehen.“
#Palantir CEO Alex Karp came right out and said that if those on the side of the protesters win the debate on this issue, the west will lose the ability to wage wars.
Erst Ende letzten Jahres hatten BR-Recherchen gezeigt, dass das bayerische Landeskriminalamt Software des US-Unternehmens #Palantir mit Echtdaten testete – "nicht rechtskonform", wie der bayerische Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz, Thomas Petri, im Januar feststellte. (6/7)
Das bayerische LKA hat Software von #Palantir vergangenes Jahr offenbar illegal getestet. Jetzt kommt raus: Auch das #BKA hat Tests von Software zur #Gesichtserkennung mit Mio. Fotos durchgeführt - ebenfalls auf fraglicher Rechtsgrundlage. Recherche von @rebeccacie und Max Zierer für @BR24
This is quite the headline in The Times using a detail they later state to be 'rumour' to make a definite claim in the headline in order to help Palantir's reputation washing attention grab. It is at best an exaggeration of the firms role. Poor reporting or PR? #palantir#thetimes#tech#bigtech#ukraine#israel#intelligence#propaganda@potemkinvillage
"Good Law Project has learned that NHS England continued to conduct negotiations with Palantir after awarding it a highly controversial contract to manage patient data in November 2023.
We do not believe it is lawful for a public body to conduct negotiations after the award of a contract. And it is difficult to understand why the NHS might want to–it is unfair to other bidders & involves trying to negotiate after having relinquished its negotiating power" #NHS#Palantir
with the banning of #TikTok i have to, yet again, remind all the partisan Democrats:
the mythical WHITE Silent Majority is as real as the weight loss from these pills Betsey Devos told me i could become a millionaire selling them to you
Democrats have been consistently losing the white demo since the 1990s but for the Obama blip.
the base is neither black or white but BROWN: very Latin@ and So. Asian —and south-east Asians are poised to overtake Latinos the next decade... 🧵
all techbro companies are para-military agencies. techbros are one mustache away from Springtime for Hitler; gleefully spying on you & me for the #ACAB state.
#UK#Healthcare#NHS#Privacy#Anonymity#Palantir: "Opensafely has its own database query language, built on SQL, but tailored to medical research. Researchers write programs in this language to extract aggregate data from each NHS trust's servers, posing medical questions of the data without ever directly touching it. These programs are published in advance on a git server, and are preflighted on synthetic NHS data on a test server. Once the program is approved, it is sent to the main Opensafely server, which then farms out parts of the query to each NHS trust, packages up the results, and publishes them to a public repository.
This is better than "the best of both worlds." This public scientific process, with peer review and disclosure built in, allows for frequent, complex analysis of NHS data without giving a single third party access to a a single patient record, ever. Opensafely was wildly successful: in just months, Opensafely collaborators published sixty blockbuster papers in Nature – science that shaped the world's response to the pandemic.
Opensafely was so successful that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned a review of the programme with an eye to expanding it to serve as the nation's default way of conducting research on medical data:
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This approach is cheaper, safer, and more effective than handing hundreds of millions of pounds to Palantir and hoping they will manage the impossible: anonymising data well enough that it is never re-identified."
1a volta in assoluto che ho sentito parlare di #Palantir era il 2011: aveva lavorato a un piano di guerra sporca contro #WikiLeaks, che ricostruisco nel mio libro #IlPotereSegreto.
Mai avrei pensato di ritrovarmi #Palantir nella Sanità italiana [Archivio]
"De-anonymising data is surprisingly easy: if you know Tony Blair’s date of birth (a matter of public record) and the two dates during his term in office in which he was treated for a heart condition (ditto), you can pick him out of any “anonymised” pool of NHS data in seconds, and then discover all those facts about his health that aren’t a matter of public record... Dr Ben Goldacre and his team at Oxford created OpenSAFELY, a “Trusted Research Environment” that allows researchers to write programs that analyse NHS data in situ. These programs would be dispatched to run against the data held by NHS trusts, and then the system would return the results to the researchers without ever letting them handle the data – which never left the trusts’ own servers." https://goodlawproject.org/cory-doctorow-health-data-it-isnt-just-palantir-or-bust/ #dataProtection#research#NHS#privacy
PS #Palantir, ... is literally named after an evil, all-seeing magic talisman employed by the principal villain of Lord of the Rings (“Sauron, are we the baddies?”)