David Shoebridge

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278 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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The Briefing · Shots fired in shaky ceasefire + What you need to know about Palantir · 4 May 2026 podcast

Last time I checked, they had access to more than 42 million data points of Australians, and they're not in there neutrally just making things more efficient.

They actually want us to be part of a global military culture war on the side of Donald Trump and his mates.

Like, bloody hell.

That's the appalling defence that the state has at every point when it's reaching into your personal life, wants to know who you're talking to, when you're talking with them, who they associate with, what your thoughts are.

You know, that is the worst possible defence that the state or any corporation has when they're trying to hoover up everything about you because increasingly data is the goldmine of the 21st century and so much of our lives are now lived on our devices and online

that if you control the data about us, you have complete access to the data, you basically own us.

You own our online identity.

And I just have a look at what's happening for the moment in, say, southern Lebanon or Gaza.

I mean, there's reports that what Palantir has been doing is gathering together the movements of journalists, identifying them as potential threats to the Israeli state,

having identified them as potential threats, they get fed through AI into a targeting matrix.

The targeting matrix then identifies where they're moving and then they get killed.

Now, journalists aren't doing anything wrong.

They're just doing their job being journalists.

I'm not saying that's going to happen if you're a plumber in Western Sydney.

But if you're a plumber in Western Sydney and then you start talking online with your mates about something and then you have a pretty rugged conversation with them about something, something you probably wouldn't have said if you're sitting in a police station, and then suddenly you're sucked up and you're put into a database and you're tagged by Palantir, is that what we want?

Is that the future that we want?

Well, I've got to say that these grassroots efforts are absolutely critical if we're going to do what I think.

And what I think we need is we need the Commonwealth government to do a full audit of where Palantir is in our system, like doing an MRI scan, if you like, you know, to find out where the infection is.

And then we should table that public audit, the results of the public audit.

And then we should be going through a process of cancelling the contracts and getting them out of all of our government systems at a minimum.

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