300 Californian Cities Secretly Have Access to Palantir

guest · Jul 12, 2019

300 Californian Cities Secretly Have Access to Palantir
July 12, 2019
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neapqg/300-californian-cities-secretly-have-access-to-palantir

Palantir, a surveillance and data mining company founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, is best known for being a contractor for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, other state and federal agencies, and corporations like JP Morgan and Airbus.

As reported by Bloomberg last year, the police departments for New York, New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles also use Palantir’s software to create “digital dragnets” of individual people in an attempt to predict crime before it happens.
Motherboard obtained documents via public record requests which reveal that the scope of Palantir’s influence in California is significantly larger than previously documented.

Palantir has been described by experts as a “secondary surveillance network,” since it maps interpersonal relationships between individuals, even those who aren't suspected of any criminal activity.
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All of the documents obtained by Motherboard for this story are public and viewable on DocumentCloud.
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guest · Jul 12, 2019

Motherboard obtained documents via public record requests which reveal that the scope of Palantir’s influence in California is significantly larger than previously documented.
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Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
July 12, 2019
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kx4z8/revealed-this-is-palantirs-top-secret-user-manual-for-cops

Through a public record request, Motherboard has obtained a user manual that gives unprecedented insight into Palantir Gotham (Palantir’s other services, Palantir Foundry, is an enterprise data platform) [...]
The guide doesn’t just show how Gotham works. It also shows how police are instructed to use the software. This guide seems to be specifically made by Palantir for the California law enforcement because it includes examples specific to California.

The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives.
The capabilities are staggering [...]
All of this information is aggregated and synthesized in a way that gives law enforcement nearly omniscient knowledge over any suspect they decide to surveil.
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