Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Fucking idiots

Nice. Very, very cool.

They have a good offering. From the demos and feedback their intel platform is solid. I wonder if this will be adopted by the rest of NATO.

Can they stop democracy getting in the way of profits for important people who buy their products ?

Oh look, it's that one world government the conservatives always cried about.

For your job application attach a certified copy of your palantir Social score...
- Our black box threat assessment and management AI has determined you are a risk to our corporation. Thank you for applying, this information has been sent to our ten thousand employment partners so they will know this when you apply for your convenience.
  We regret that we, or any of our partner agencies which represent every major employer, will not be able to hire you at this or anytime in the future.
Conservatives always -hate- deficit spending ... or anything else ... when someone else is doing it. Else it's right and noble and good.

Palantir is one of the most evil capitalism companies I have ever seen.

I’m fairly certain it’ll be renamed Cyberdyne at some point soon
There is nothing evil about palantir as a company or business model. They are a highly skilled big data analytics firm and just ingest clients data and output useful metrics.
The evil is the client(governments) intention to collect and use this kind of data. Which has nothing to do with capitalism and is only happening due to liberalism being on the way out.
- You clearly know nothing or feign ignorance about its creator/CEO, Peter Thiel, who is evil, with evil intent, and evil aspirations.
- I guess there was nothing evil about GM and Ford supplying Nazis with vehicle parts (Henry Ford got a 'golden eagle' award from Adolf!) before WW2. Just good business, right?
  Nothing evil about IBM supplying them with punch cards to keep track of the Jewish either, right?
- Palantir could refuse to accept the mandate and the money, but they didn't. So the governments are evil, and so is Palantir
- This is mental gymnastics on an olympic level.
- Nah fuck them. They black box said analytics, making any kind of audit of the decisions impossible. This is HORRIBLE, especially in the contract of government and health care.
- So palantir analyses pretty sensitive data, for instance health data from NHS. They may not be able to share the data itself but are there any safeguards against them using the knowledge they gain from these analyses to consult health insurance companies for outrageous amounts of money so insurance companies can fuck people even more by grinding stats?
  Same goes for them analysing surveillance data. Any safeguards against Palantir consulting fascist political parties on results of these analyses so they can more efficiently carry out fear mongering?
- This is an accurate assessment. Companies will do what they can to make more money, it's that simple. The fact that the clients choose to use it for evil doesn't make a difference.
  Granted, if their product wasn't available, then governments would buy it, but still, it's just another company taking advantage of what their clients want and profiting from it.
  Samsung makes shit devices that steal all your data and sell that data for more profit. The same devices are made with planned obsolescence in mind. If you buy Samsung devices that's on you, not them.

Fools.

Meanwhile, average Britons are fighting over migrants and lgbt. What I find is that none of those politically opinionated on these ever talk about economics. Odd, that people seemed to have talked less about taxing the rich and wealth inequality than before. Gee, I wonder if it's because surveillance capitalism and techno-feudalism want people distracted from the theft of ordinary people's wealth by the rich?

This deal would have been part of the agreements made with the US Administration. Part of the capitulation to illiberal forces.

Every time I see any reference to the UK I'm expecting to see more bullshit surveillance and censorship. And so, here we are.

Stupid idea.

Probably not as stupid as Brexit though. I mean, we’ll see.

"Stupid" does not apply here, unless you have an alternative version of reality. Corrupt politicians with no morals will sell the country if they get a cut, regardless of how it might affect those around the world, having only a selfish interest (for reelection purposes and whatnot) in the relative well-being of the citizens. This is logical and expected... they're not stupid, they're just amoral, selfish, greedy, unrepenting and inhumane folks. 🤷
- Okay, that.