Michael Steinberger
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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But a lot of people labor under the misconception that this is a company that collects data itself and uses the data itself.
And that's not true.
It's technology that allows organizations to make better use of their own data.
They store it, they use it, they oversee its use.
So this is, as I said, this has colored a lot of the discussion about Palantir.
There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about
the service this company provides and some of the organizations it works with.
But a lot of people believe that Palantir is using the data itself, is collecting and using it.
And that's just not the case.
Well, yeah, no, that's, you know, they work with a lot of organizations and among the organizations they work for are those who survey individuals and particular populations.
And this goes back to the very beginning.
They were started in part with funding from the CIA and the first government client was the CIA.
But the software itself is not surveillance technology.
What it does is it enables those who use surveillance technology and other things to make better use of all the information and
they're gathering palantir is you can think of it as like a wood chipper it's you know all this information is being fed into it and it's it's in this case not spitting out wood it's spitting out you know patterns connections trends you know it finds these things in the data but it's not surveillance technology per se but it enables those who for instance are are
trying to track down terrorists or in the context of the current moment, trying to find people who are in the United States illegally, it makes it a lot easier for them to use the data they're collecting.
And it's all sorts of data.
It could be bank records.
It could be information gathered from automatic license plate readers.
All this is fed into Palantir and the software merges it.
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