There's no reason to think it happened either way. But I think there's reasonable suspicion that Palantir might have been involved.
> information in Palantir was inappropriately obtained without a warrant when one should have been required
That's not the only issue, or even the main one. Government investigating and collecting information on private citizens en masse, rather than individuals for cause, is very dangerous. Doing it based on decisions made by Palantir's software developers, seems even worse.
> It's basically a mashup of a social network and CRM with predictive modeling on top.
How do you know how it functions? And wouldn't that describe any government system used for surveilling (and sometimes oppressing) its citizens? The Stasi had the same thing, just with far less powerful tech. Using banal buzzwords doesn't make Palantir or government surveillance any more banal.
These are all reasonable concerns about palantir, but none of them are parallel construction. And I know how palantir functions because there's plenty of information available on it. Heck call their sales team and chat them up about a use case if you want to learn more (it's what i did, about 10 years ago) my point is their gotham product isn't top secret, at one point they even had some sort of demo client.
I'm sure their tech, like any other, can be misused. But parallel construction isnt even hinted at here, its the potential Brady violation that is the issue.
There's no reason to think it happened either way. But I think there's reasonable suspicion that Palantir might have been involved.
> information in Palantir was inappropriately obtained without a warrant when one should have been required
That's not the only issue, or even the main one. Government investigating and collecting information on private citizens en masse, rather than individuals for cause, is very dangerous. Doing it based on decisions made by Palantir's software developers, seems even worse.
> It's basically a mashup of a social network and CRM with predictive modeling on top.
How do you know how it functions? And wouldn't that describe any government system used for surveilling (and sometimes oppressing) its citizens? The Stasi had the same thing, just with far less powerful tech. Using banal buzzwords doesn't make Palantir or government surveillance any more banal.