In vier Bundesländern arbeitet die Polizei mit der US-Softwarefirma #Palantir. Wie sich die Polizei damit von einem radikalen Libertären abhängig macht, beleuchtet Sonja Peteranderl: https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/august/das-ueberwachungsimperium

#Amnesty International says #US authorities using #AI to surveil pro-#Palestinian protesters

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250821-rights-group-us-authorities-ai-pro-palestinian-protesters

Amnesty International accused US authorities on Wednesday of using #Palantir and Babel Street AI tools to surveil immigrants and target non-citizens at pro-Palestinian protests. The rights group said a review of public records shows the software enables mass surveillance to assess and single out foreign nationals.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/20/direct-action-targets-uk-military-tech-and-fossil-finance/

waging a campaign of sabotage against the tools, property and machinery of the fossil fuel economy driving the climate emergency. We will escalate until our demands are met for an end to all supportfor fossil fuels causing widespread death and destruction.

https://shutthesystem.is/

https://www.climateresistance.org/

https://commonslibrary.org/climate-resistance-handbook-or-i-was-part-of-a-climate-action-now-what/

Das Bundesinnenministerium bestätigt auf Anfrage wieder, #Palantir auf Bundesebene zu prüfen: Der Konzern hat eben gute Kontakte in die Politik & zu BMI-Entscheidern https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr/palantir-polizei-daten-software-100.html

"Crucially, Palantir doesn’t reorganize a company's bins and pipes, so to speak, meaning it doesn’t change how data is collected or how it moves through the guts of an organization. Instead, its software sits on top of a customer’s messy systems and allows them to integrate and analyze data without needing to fix the underlying architecture. In some ways, it’s a technical band-aid. In theory, this makes Palantir particularly well suited for government agencies that may use state-of-the-art software cobbled together with programming languages dating back to the 1960s.

Palantir began gaining steam in the 2010s, a decade when corporate business discourse was dominated by the rise of “Big Data.” Hundreds of tech startups popped up promising to disrupt the market by leveraging information that was now readily available thanks to smartphones and internet-connected sensors, including everything from global shipping patterns to the social media habits of college students. The hype around Big Data put pressure on companies, especially legacy brands without sophisticated technical know-how, to upgrade their software, or else risk looking like dinosaurs to their customers and investors.

But it’s not exactly easy or cheap to upgrade computer systems that may date back years, or even decades. Rather than tearing everything down and building anew, companies may want a solution designed to be slapped on top of what they already have. That’s where Palantir comes in.

Palantir’s software is designed with nontechnical users in mind. Rather than relying on specialized technical teams to parse and analyze data, Palantir allows people across an organization to get insights, sometimes without writing a single line of code. All they need to do is log into one of Palantir’s two primary platforms: Foundry, for commercial users, or Gotham, for law enforcement and government users."

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/

#WallStreet is losing ground Tuesday following drops for #Palantir & other stars that had been riding the mania surrounding #AI #tech.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.7% & is on track for a 3rd straight loss after setting its all-time high last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 70 points as of 2:23PM ET, & the Nasdaq composite was down 1.4%.

The heaviest weight on the market was #Nvidia, whose chips are powering much of the move into AI. It sank 3%.

#economy
https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-intel-trump-rates-0a2f07987dabb74a8da0927023a92610

“The surveillance software called #Gotham, developed by US company #Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed.

It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant.”

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117

#Epstein #Zionists #Trump #OrganizedCrime #Mossad
#Palantir #SurveillanceState

Whitney Webb is an investigative independent journalist. On this video, she talks about the Epstein files, politicians connected to them, organised crime and Mossad, music industry and promotion of private prisons, Epstein and connected individuals who "committed" suicide, the Maxwell dynasty and the White House, Peter Thiel's US society project and a lot of other nasty stuff.
Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbhNV4UWq2A&t=3223s

"So Palantir has a couple of different products, but its two main flagship products are these things called Foundry on one hand, and then Gotham on the other. Foundry is more oriented toward private enterprise corporations, that type of customer. So think like Walmart or something. And then the other one is Gotham, that's more oriented toward law enforcement, government agencies, places that are actually dealing with case information, things about actual people, trying to figure out relationships between people, that kind of work.

On the other hand, Foundry is more being used to just make regular everyday business practices more efficient. So, whereas a customer might use Foundry to, say, instead of having to completely redo their IT systems because their company is like 60 years old and they have a combination of really old code and then really new software, and they can't figure out how to just make it all flow together, they don't actually have to go in and fix it. Foundry just sits on top of everything and allows them to get the insights that they need to without actually fixing any of the stuff that's going on underneath. It's like a technical bandaid in that sense.

And then Gotham, similarly, it is sitting on top of systems that law enforcement and a government agency might already have. The difference is that it's working with case information, it might work through information from a social media company. So, if a police department asks for everything associated with someone's Facebook profile, it would ingest all of that. And the whole idea is that you can map the relationships between people.

So, police departments have used this to try and map out alleged gang affiliations. They can also extract things like whether someone has a tattoo, which is information that police might have if they have a booking record on somebody."

https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-palantir-most-mysterious-company-silicon-valley/

Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley

https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-palantir-most-mysterious-company-silicon-valley/

Wer alles in Polizeisystemen landet und was wie lange gespeichert wird. Bundesweite Einführung von #Palantir verhindern! https://www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/debatte-um-palantir-was-weiss-eigentlich-die-polizei-ueber-mich-XR4NICZTWJDMZMJK4PHINB3ZEM.html

"We must oppose #ChatControl / #Palantir / facial surveillance: what if it falls into the wrong hands"

I've always found that argument rather bizarre, because any hands wielding these things automatically become the wrong hands.

But it seems to work better than abstractly trying to convince people that these tools are *intrinsically* bad, and it's not wrong either, just a bit redundant - so I'll keep using it.

The #Trump administration is #cancelling two nearly complete #software projects for the #Navy and #AirForce, totalling over $800 million, to allow other firms like #Salesforce and #Palantir to compete for similar contracts. This move, along with the exaggerated claims of saving billions through #contractcancellations, is seen as a way to redirect taxpayer money to oligarchs. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/13/annals-of-oligarchy-defense-department-edition?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#Palantir

"What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

The problem, however, is that even ex-employees struggle to provide a clear description of the company. 'It's really hard to explain what Palantir works on or what it does,' says Linda Xia, who was an engineer at Palantir from 2022 to 2024. 'Even as someone who worked there, it's hard to figure out, how do you give a cohesive explanation?'

Xia was one of 13 former Palantir staffers who signed an open letter published in May arguing that the company risks being complicit in authoritarianism by continuing to cooperate with the Trump administration. She and other former Palantir staffers who spoke to WIRED for this story argue that, in order to grapple with Palantir and its role in the world, let alone hold the company accountable, you need to first understand what it really is.

It’s not that former employees literally don’t know what Palantir is selling. In interviews with WIRED, they spoke fluidly about how its software can connect and transform different kinds of data collected by government agencies and corporations. But when asked to, say, name its direct business competitors, two former Palantir employees who requested anonymity to speak freely about their experiences, struggled to come up with anything. 'I still don't know how to answer that question, to be honest,' says one.

Juan Sebastián Pinto, who worked as a content strategist at Palantir and also signed the open letter, says it sells software to other businesses, a category commonly referred to in Silicon Valley as B2B SaaS. Another former staffer says Palantir provides 'really extravagant plumbing with data.'

(. . .)

So what sets Palantir apart?

Part of the answer may lie in Palantir’s marketing strategy. Pinto says he believes that the company, which recently began using the tagline 'software that dominates,' has cultivated its mysterious public image on purpose. Unlike consumer-facing startups that need to clearly explain their products to everyday users, Palantir’s main audience is sprawling government agencies and Fortune 500 companies.
What it’s ultimately selling them is not just software, but the idea of a seamless, almost magical solution to complex problems. To do that, Palantir often uses the language and aesthetics of warfare, painting itself as a powerful, quasi-military intelligence partner. 'Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world,' Palantir CEO Alexander Karp says in a February 2025 earnings call, 'And when it's necessary, to scare enemies, and on occasion, kill them.'"

https://archive.ph/zh2dq