Palantir är ett amerikanskt företag som håller på att arbeta sig in i EU. Deras spionageverksamhet är så dubiös att t.o.m. Soros dumpar deras aktier. Här har Guardian faktiskt letat lite.
Det är förmodligen sådant här EU sysslar med medan vi inte hinner läsa alla detaljer om kakor när vi klickar bort GDPR-medgivandena.
Topic är allt som gäller Palantir, dess verksamhet mot Europa och om vi behöver/kommer att få vår integritet komprometterad av verksamheten.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...each-in-europe
Det är förmodligen sådant här EU sysslar med medan vi inte hinner läsa alla detaljer om kakor när vi klickar bort GDPR-medgivandena.
Topic är allt som gäller Palantir, dess verksamhet mot Europa och om vi behöver/kommer att få vår integritet komprometterad av verksamheten.
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Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir's troubling reach in Europe
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
the world’s most controversial tech companies access to vast amounts of personal data while offering its software to help Greece weather the Covid storm. The zero-cost agreement was not registered on the public procurement system, neither did the Greek government carry out a data impact assessment – the mandated check to see whether an agreement might violate privacy laws.
from across Europe during Covid and show Palantir extending into sectors from health to policing, aviation to commerce and even academia
piece together the European activities of one of the most secretive companies in the world. The findings raise serious questions over the way public agencies work with Palantir and whether its software can work within the bounds of European laws
[UK:]
Covid-related free trial. Palantir was already embedded in the NHS, where a no-bid contract valued at £1 was only revealed after data privacy campaigners threatened to take the UK government to court. When that trial period was over the cost of continuing with Palantir came in at £24m.
part of the Netherlands’ Covid response and pitched at least four other European countries, as well as a clutch of EU agencies. The Palantir one-pager that Germany’s health ministry released after a freedom of information request described Europe as the company’s “focus of activities”
On 23 March [2020], the EU’s Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) received an email from their counterparts at the US CDC, extolling their work with Palantir and saying the company had asked for an introduction.
The Greek government has declined to say how it was introduced to Palantir. But there were senior-level links between Palantir, the Trump administration and the Greek government. The US ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, has spoken publicly of the contacts between Pierrakakis and Michael Kratsios, a Greek-American and chief technology adviser to then-president, Donald Trump. Kratsios joined the White House from a role as chief of staff to Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley tech investor and founder of Palantir.
in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR
Greece’s data protection authority has since launched an investigation. The government says it has ended cooperation with Palantir and that all data has been deleted.
fortune its founder Thiel made with PayPal or as an early investor in Facebook but on his support for Trump. Palantir has faced protests in the US over its role in facilitating the Trump administration’s mass deportation of undocumented migrants through its contract with US immigration enforcement agency ICE.
discussions over a campaign of disinformation and cyberattacks directed against WikiLeaks and journalists
when it listed on the New York stock exchange, had only 125 customers.
Sophie in ‘t Veld, a Dutch MEP, has tracked Palantir’s lobbying of Europe’s centres of power. She notes the company’s unusual “proximity to power” and questions how it was that an EU delegation to Washington in 2019 met with US government officials and only one private company, Palantir. What was discussed, she wanted to know, when Karp met the president of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen or when Palantir met the then EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, who is now in charge of making the EU fit for the digital age?
Palantir said: “We build software products to help our customers integrate and understand their own data, but we don’t collect, hold, mine, or monetize data on our own. Of course, our engineers may be required to interact with some customer data when they are at customer sites, but we are not in the business of collecting, maintaining, or selling data.”
Gotham has long been used by intelligence services in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and France and was built for investigative analysis. Some Palantir engineers call what it does “needle-in-haystack” analysis that agencies can use to look for bad actors hiding in complex networks.
The agreement signed in December 2012 with the French multinational Capgemini, subcontracted the work to Palantir and Gotham.
Europol considered suing Palantir and Capgemin
the system could not be guaranteed to distinguish whether someone was a victim, witness, informant or suspect in a crime.
The hottest shit ever in policing’
Norway was a latecomer when it signed up in 2009 but in 2016 a high-ranking delegation from the Norwegian police flew to Silicon Valley to meet Palantir. When they returned the force decided to set up a more far-reaching system to be called Omnia, running on Gotham.
Palantir met Danish officials in Silicon Valley two years earlier than their Norwegian counterparts.
predictive policing system, which vendors claim can help police predict where crimes will occur (place-based) and who might commit them (person-based).
Palantir’s business model is based on a particular form of surveillance capitalism that targets marginalised communities and accelerates the use of discriminatory technologies such as predictive policing.”
latest European bid for greater digital sovereignty is GAIA-X, wrongly billed in some quarters as a project to make a Euro-clou
GAIA-X would mean commercial data is more tightly controlled on the cloud. D
Palantir proclaimed itself, among other companies, a “day 1 partner” of GAIA-X
Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir's troubling reach in Europe
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
the world’s most controversial tech companies access to vast amounts of personal data while offering its software to help Greece weather the Covid storm. The zero-cost agreement was not registered on the public procurement system, neither did the Greek government carry out a data impact assessment – the mandated check to see whether an agreement might violate privacy laws.
from across Europe during Covid and show Palantir extending into sectors from health to policing, aviation to commerce and even academia
piece together the European activities of one of the most secretive companies in the world. The findings raise serious questions over the way public agencies work with Palantir and whether its software can work within the bounds of European laws
[UK:]
Covid-related free trial. Palantir was already embedded in the NHS, where a no-bid contract valued at £1 was only revealed after data privacy campaigners threatened to take the UK government to court. When that trial period was over the cost of continuing with Palantir came in at £24m.
part of the Netherlands’ Covid response and pitched at least four other European countries, as well as a clutch of EU agencies. The Palantir one-pager that Germany’s health ministry released after a freedom of information request described Europe as the company’s “focus of activities”
On 23 March [2020], the EU’s Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) received an email from their counterparts at the US CDC, extolling their work with Palantir and saying the company had asked for an introduction.
The Greek government has declined to say how it was introduced to Palantir. But there were senior-level links between Palantir, the Trump administration and the Greek government. The US ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, has spoken publicly of the contacts between Pierrakakis and Michael Kratsios, a Greek-American and chief technology adviser to then-president, Donald Trump. Kratsios joined the White House from a role as chief of staff to Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley tech investor and founder of Palantir.
in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR
Greece’s data protection authority has since launched an investigation. The government says it has ended cooperation with Palantir and that all data has been deleted.
fortune its founder Thiel made with PayPal or as an early investor in Facebook but on his support for Trump. Palantir has faced protests in the US over its role in facilitating the Trump administration’s mass deportation of undocumented migrants through its contract with US immigration enforcement agency ICE.
discussions over a campaign of disinformation and cyberattacks directed against WikiLeaks and journalists
when it listed on the New York stock exchange, had only 125 customers.
Sophie in ‘t Veld, a Dutch MEP, has tracked Palantir’s lobbying of Europe’s centres of power. She notes the company’s unusual “proximity to power” and questions how it was that an EU delegation to Washington in 2019 met with US government officials and only one private company, Palantir. What was discussed, she wanted to know, when Karp met the president of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen or when Palantir met the then EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, who is now in charge of making the EU fit for the digital age?
Palantir said: “We build software products to help our customers integrate and understand their own data, but we don’t collect, hold, mine, or monetize data on our own. Of course, our engineers may be required to interact with some customer data when they are at customer sites, but we are not in the business of collecting, maintaining, or selling data.”
Gotham has long been used by intelligence services in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and France and was built for investigative analysis. Some Palantir engineers call what it does “needle-in-haystack” analysis that agencies can use to look for bad actors hiding in complex networks.
The agreement signed in December 2012 with the French multinational Capgemini, subcontracted the work to Palantir and Gotham.
Europol considered suing Palantir and Capgemin
the system could not be guaranteed to distinguish whether someone was a victim, witness, informant or suspect in a crime.
The hottest shit ever in policing’
Norway was a latecomer when it signed up in 2009 but in 2016 a high-ranking delegation from the Norwegian police flew to Silicon Valley to meet Palantir. When they returned the force decided to set up a more far-reaching system to be called Omnia, running on Gotham.
Palantir met Danish officials in Silicon Valley two years earlier than their Norwegian counterparts.
predictive policing system, which vendors claim can help police predict where crimes will occur (place-based) and who might commit them (person-based).
Palantir’s business model is based on a particular form of surveillance capitalism that targets marginalised communities and accelerates the use of discriminatory technologies such as predictive policing.”
latest European bid for greater digital sovereignty is GAIA-X, wrongly billed in some quarters as a project to make a Euro-clou
GAIA-X would mean commercial data is more tightly controlled on the cloud. D
Palantir proclaimed itself, among other companies, a “day 1 partner” of GAIA-X
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...each-in-europe
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