The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials

This is all to rapidly transferring power and governance to tech firms. It won’t be long until any government just waits until the likes of palantir tell them what they need to do.
The “manifesto” that the palantir CEO released is just one step in that process.
Yet no one seems to care. We’re literally handing over control of the nation, step by step to a collective shoulder shrug of the nation.

This the true purpose of AI. Mass surveillance and social compliance.

Every single company that sell into the UK public sector do this. It makes complete commercial sense to have (on your payroll) staff that understand funding streams, procurement nuances, the use cases, connections to senior stakeholders still in the public sectors and just generally staff that have an understanding of the sector they are trying to sell to.

This isn’t unique to Palantir, and sounds like a bit of a hit piece on a company that has a poor reputation.

From a policing background, every company that I can think of has ex cops on the pay roll. Be that companies that sell taser, body cams, uniform, police vehicles, command and control software, case management software… the list goes on.

I keep thinking, okay you have tech companies the ability to identify crime and flag up crime hotspot, so commercial companies (including supermarkets) and the police.

 then you tech companies offer tools for legal research and analysis and caselaw and procedural approaches, when you embed the legal system solicitors, barristers, judiciary.

Then government departments using these tools, once companies triangulate a certain level of embedding and dependence on these tools, you have potentiality for these companies to deflect from their own conduct and potential illegality, look at Uber 

( https://qz.com/924459/ubers-greyball-surveillance-program-tracked-police-phones ) 

“fortnight of scandal just got a whole lot worse: The New York Times just revealed the existence of an uber-creepy company tool called “Greyball” that tracks the phones of police and hostile local government officials.” 

” When Uber did identify a police officer or hostile local official, it would “scramble a set of ghost cars inside the user’s app, or falsely show that no cars were available.

Another technique was to track the burner smartphones that city officials would buy in bulk when they tried to mount sting operations against Uber drivers. The company would then go to local electronics stores and figure out which models were being sold most cheaply, and block those devices from hailing a ride. “