2026-07-18 16:32:03
«Einstellungsgespräch — Palantir fragt Tötungsbereitschaft der Entwickler ab:
Palantir testet beim Einstellungsgespräch, wie Entwickler damit umgehen, dass ihre Software Menschen tötet. Wer das Unternehmen verlässt, muss schweigen.»
Das ist Faschismuss und nichts anders! Hört auf auf irgendwelchen "Sicherheit" zu befürworten die egoistisch vorgegaukelt wird.
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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat
It is nice that Palantir explicitly confirms it's evil character with statements like this. It should make it easier to boycot the company and it's products.
Just an excerpt added as image, link for full text:
https://twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312
Every week, Metacurity offers our readers a selection of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't do justice to amid the torrent of daily news.
This week's choices cover,
--How an audacious server heist exposed the fragility of digital infrastructure,
--WhatsApp has quietly become an essential service,
--The NHS fought to keep sensitive health data out of Palantir's hands,
--Thomson Reuters' ICE surveillance problem,
--Why AI slop thre…
Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/05/13/greater-manchester-still-says-no-to-nhs-data-platform-with-palant…
The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-stock-trades-palantir-nvidia-20260517.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p58#a260517p58
Es ist kaum zu fassen wie wenig Transparenz für das Besitzen von Aktien, Lobbyspenden u.v.m. an Politiker:innen und Parteien existieren, aber zeitgleich die Massenüberwachung des gläsernen Bürgers voranschreitet.
Von Superreichen Repräsentant:innen des Staates wird von Datenschutz und Privatsphäre gesprochen, während zeitgleich an jeder öffentlichen Ecke Kameras stehen, Staatstrojaner gerechtfertigt werden, Palantir von Polizei und Co. genutzt werden soll, Klarnamenpflicht und Persona…
Palantir was initially funded by
In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture capital arm of the CIA,
and has been working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been criticised by civil liberties groups.
It works with several other UK government organisations,
including the army.
The Israeli army reportedly used Palantir for AI-based targeting in the war in Gaza,
which is a main reason Amnesty International campaigned against Palantir within the…
"Foundry is a proprietary product. Some #NHS data analysts told us that all their work on the FDP would be lost if they no longer had access to #Palantir’s platform. This raises concerns over what many experts call “vendor lock in”. Once you start using a Silicon Valley tech company’s product, it can …
Hallo Herr #Dobrindt:
Der französische Inlandsgeheimdienst beendet seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem umstrittenen US-Tech-Unternehmen Palantir. „Wir können im digitalen Bereich keine neuen strategischen Abhängigkeiten akzeptieren“, sagte Premierminister Sebastien Lecornu
Cybersecurity is now a burning topic in capitals around the globe, so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter,
--Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network,
--Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia,
--France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency,
Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are "unhappy" with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/palantir-karp-enterprise-ai.html
Senator Lynn Ruane invited to Palantir secret society meeting, but declined.
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2026/0618/1579209-senator-among-six-irish-on-invite-list-of-secretive-dialog-group/
There'…
Sowas kann man sich nicht ausdenken: Axel Springer Award an Peter Thiel:
"Beobachter vermuten, dass Thiels politische Ansichten sogar noch radikaler sind als die der aktuellen US-Regierung."
"Bereits 2009 schrieb er, dass er nicht mehr daran glaube, dass Freiheit und Demokratie miteinander vereinbar seien."
"Aus Sicht des Springer-Konzerns ist Palantir jedoch »eines der wertvollsten und für die Resilienz von Demokratien wichtigsten Unternehmen unser…
Jegliche Form von Verständnis gegenüber der kommenden Autoritarisierung des Staates wird ausgeblendet, alle Grundlagen, jegliches „wehret den Anfängen” ignoriert, sobald als Rechtfertigung der Kampf gegen Antisemitismus herbeigezogen wird.
Merz? Der gerade alle Demokratieprojekte, selbst die, die Holocaust-Erinnerungsarbeit leisten, kürzt und abschafft? Der soll wirklich ein Interesse haben den Antisemitismus zu bekämpfen, und der Einsatz von Palantir, die Einschränkungen der Versammlu…
Bin ja gespannt, ob Palantir das weiterzieht.
#Palantir gegen die Republik: Das Urteil https://www.republik.ch/2026/06/13/palantir-gegen-die-republik-das-urteil
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Palantir scheitert weitgehend mit Gegendarstellungen gegen "Republik"-Recherche
Mela is listening to a podcast: Himmelfahrt, Peter Magyar, Sigmar Gabriel, Gerhard Schröder, Fritten, Palantir, KI-Studie, Polen und Plastik – Die Wochendämmerung - Der stabile Wochenrückblick – Katrin Rönicke und Holger Klein (hauseins) - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1287979850…
Palantir has been selected to build a new national firearms licensing database for police forces across England and Wales.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/gove
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Palantir scheitert weitgehend mit Gegendarstellungen gegen "Republik"-Recherche
Kann ich bitte diesen Handschuh mit den Infinity-Steinen noch mal sehen?
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/springer-konzern-ehrt-peter-thiel-mit-axel-springer-award-2026-a-4074675d-9a14-42fa-841d-1…
Einig sind sich die Grünen bereits, dass sie mit der Palantir-Software "Gotham" möglichst wenig zu tun haben wollen. Bei der Urabstimmung geht es aber um die Frage: Wie wenig ist möglichst wenig?
#Palantir #BadenWürttemberg
Nicht der erste, und sicher nicht der letzte sinnvolle Schritt der Franzosen für digitale Souveränität. Man kann nur neidisch sein.
https://orf.at/stories/3433501/
ICE shared Medicaid data it shouldn’t have with Palantir : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data
France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitale Souveränität: Verfassungsschutz kauft europäische Palantir-Alternative
Palantir loses its legal bid to force Swiss magazine Republik to publish Palantir's responses to coverage of Switzerland's rejection of the company's services (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979
I was going to boost something from thenerve.news, and could not find a mastodon share button. Wanted to give them a hint to add it. No way to contact them without an account. So, I'm not bothering. Their loss.
P.S; The palantir manifesto is out of this world. Read about it somewhere else.
London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sove
Palantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/29/palantir-has-relea…
Palantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/29/palantir-has-relea…
ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p36#a260512p36
«"Blackbox" Palantir — Was macht das rasant wachsende KI-Unternehmen genau? Warum die rasant wachsende KI-Firma als umstritten gilt:
Ein Professor für IT-Sicherheitsrecht erklärt, warum die Datenfirma nicht nur in Fachkreisen kontrovers diskutiert wird»
Palantir ist mehr als nur kritisch zu betrachten, denn Palentir handeln mit ihrem Datenhunger sehr undurchsichtig.
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UK government still planning to entrust Trump oligarch Peter Thiel's Palantir with handling data of its National Health Service. Then UK ambassador Mandelson (now out because of his Epstein ties) helped facilitate the deal.
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026/
Palantir is evil and supports evil. Why am I not surprised that these talking points are echoed by the current US administration?
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tech…
Yeah, this is fine and normal. Please, give Palantir access to all your citizens’ data.
#palantir
French domestic spy agency ditches Palantir for local rival, PM says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-invest-655-mln-ai-set-up-common-chatbot-all-state-services-2026-06-16/
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitale Souveränität: Verfassungsschutz kauft europäische Palantir-Alternative
Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (Alex Bronzini-Vender/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/palantir-yale-confere…
Ein Jahr Digitalministerium: Wildberger schiebt den Stein Souveränität den Berg hoch, Höttges plant Fusion mit T-Mobile US, Palantir erklärt Krieg zur Softwarefrage. Wer hat den Mut hat, den Preis für DigitaleSouveränität zu zahlen? #Kuratiert #DigitaleSouveränität
Palantir's CEO; is this part of the plan to force women home?
This CEO warns that Democratic voters are most at risk from automation | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/palantir-ai-marco-rubio-afghanistan-katy-perry
Trump Bought Corporations' Stock as His Administration Boosted Their Business (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/money/donald-trump-stock-investments-palantir-axom-nvidia
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p153#a260514p153
As much as I think Palantir is the Darth Vader of Silicon Valley, the CSO of Coinbase was formerly the CISO at Palantir, and that dude is wickedly fierce when it comes to cybersecurity.
Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA
https://therecord.media/trump-consider…
Wow, die ZDF heute-show thematisierte eben:
#Überwachungsstaat, #Palantir und Peter #Thiel !
Beginnt ab Minute 23:
Il contratto con Palantir della polizia metropolitana è stato bloccato dal Comune.
La polizia metropolitana di Londra non ha potuto firmare un contratto del valore massimo di 50 milioni di sterline con la societŠ tecnologica statunitense Palantir, dopo che il vicesindaco di Londra si è rifiutato di approvare l'accordo.
@…
Brokers representing Donald Trump purchased between $9.7 million and $24.3 million in stocks from a dozen arms manufacturers and other Pentagon contractors in 2025,
-- including Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics, according to an analysis of a new financial disclosure released by the president last week.
The disclosure comes as the Trump administration launches new strikes on Iran,
oversees a historic weapons stockpiling effort at home,
and calls for a $…
«Justiz und Medienrecht - Palantir akzeptiert Urteil im Streit mit der "Republik":
Der US-Datenkonzern Palantir akzeptiert das Urteil des Zürcher Handelsgerichts im Streit mit dem Onlinemedium @… und verzichtet auf eine Anfechtung.»
Wie sich Palantir sich gerne als fortschrittlich darstellt, gelang ihr diesmal nicht. Das ers…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116571789123495062
Es interessiert mich nicht wer die Software gemacht hat, Palantir-artige Überwachungssoftware gehört verboten, nicht eingesetzt!
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir (Jude Joffe-Block/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260717/p120#a260717p120
Techdirt piece suggesting that Palantir has gone so far into Trumpist ideology, that they may have become untenable for any government that seeks to show itself as distinct from Trumpism.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/palantir-goes-mask-off-for-…
RE: https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/116544233323310046
Precisamente.
Como eu disse na altura, a Palantir podia perfeitamente chamar-se Neonazism, Inc. e ficava perfeitamente identificada.
Yikes. I just found out that I overlapped with Alex Karp (multi-billionaire CEO of Palantir) for a year at our very small university ('college' in the US). Don't remember him, but it's scary to see what he's become. Just watching this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7VOoFwDtU…
How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back
Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/for-palantir-ai-is-…
Daten-Firma Palantir erzielt 85 Prozent Umsatzplus
Palantir baute sich den Ruf auf, Muster in großen Datenmengen zu finden. Nach Militär und Behörden wollen nun auch US-Unternehmen davon profitieren.
https://www.
Die Bundesregierung plant Gesichtserkennung für Polizei und erwägt dabei US-Anbieter wie Clearview AI. Problem: Clearview-Gründer Ton-That pflegte enge Verbindungen zu Alt-Right und MAGA, der Mitinvestor Peter Thiel ist Palantir-Gründer. Wer Big Brother ruft, sollte schauen, welche Kappe er trägt, meint #Golem
It takes a village to raise a fascism. @… https://ecoevo.social/@ml/116456227378920367
A year into Trump’s second term,
as Palantir deepens its relationship with an administration that many workers fear is wreaking havoc at home,
employees are finally raising concerns internally,
as the US’s war on immigrants,
war in Iran,
and even company-released manifestos has forced them to rethink the role they play in it all.
"I think there’s a bit of an identity crisis and a bit of a challenge.
We were supposed to be the ones who were preve…
Alex Karp calls US reliance on AI labs for military tech "effing insane", pans AI fees for businesses, and touts Palantir's Nvidia Nemotron deal for US agencies (Ty Roush/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/20
RE: https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/116544233323310046
Precisamente.
Como eu disse na altura, a Palantir podia perfeitamente chamar-se Neonazism, Inc. e ficava perfeitamente identificada.
Palantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You're One of the Baddies
https://gizmodo.com/palantir-debuts-chic-chore-coat-so-the-world-knows-youre-one-of-the-baddies-2000750606
Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $1.63B, vs. $1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to $687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to $595M (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/palantir-tops-…
Ein Softwarekonzern entdeckt plötzlich seine Liebe zur Weltordnung und erklärt Krieg zur rationalen Option
Wer KI-Waffen baut, soll sich nicht mit Moral aufhalten, sondern mit Effizienz und Loyalität gegenüber dem Staat
Am Ende klingt das weniger nach Analyse als nach Verkaufsargument für Behördenbudgets
Quelle: Golem über Palantirs Manifest „The Technological Republic“
#KI
Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
"Organizations can set up alerts for “concerning behavior,” like exfiltrating datasets, and search the session logs of individual users. They also allow organizations to see which users have viewed specific sets of information."
https://www.wired.com/story/palant…
Bloody hell, this was going to be held almost down the road from us. Can you imagine the stench?
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/
Good on them for cance…
In a report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more details of a military contract with the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/palantir-s-3…
Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, advocating for hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism, and "regressive" cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/pala
RE: https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/116429883958535292
“Your AI technology from Palantir kills Palestinians.”
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO: “Mostly terrorists, that’s true.”
Fuck you, Alex. I hope someone wipes that smug smile off your face one day, you …
Krach in London wegen Palantir
Der Londoner Bürgermeisters Sadiq Khan stoppt einen geplanten Vertrag zwischen der Londoner Metropolitan Police und dem US-Softwareunternehmen Palantir.
https://www.heise.de/news/…
'One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen': Alarms Sound Over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palantir-technofascist-manifesto-criticism
How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back
RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
It’s OK, Palantir should still have access.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Großstadt blockiert Überwachungssoftware Palantir
https://www.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £50M Palantir deal to automate intelligence analysis, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m
A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/anduril-ceo-brian-s…
The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-deployment-company-northslope-acquisi…