As far as I can tell, the NSA data was into a dataset that allowed report software to run against it. It was also largely metadata, and it didn’t assign a person to the metadata.
Meaning it wasn’t an “enter a name” or "enter social security number.
This sounds like a dataset built for each person. Now how that’s going to work is a different question. Cops can already pull you over, and once they have your license plate, they can see if you’ve got warrants or outstanding fines, and various legal history.
Palantir’s data sounds like an efficient way to cause mass amounts of identity theft.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Palantir creates platforms for data.
This is creating a platform that allows somebody to access every piece of data in one centralized location.
So example, when somebody is determining your social security payment (if that even exists in the future) they(or more likely AI) might be basing that decision not just on data relevant to income but also on something like a personal social credit score based on every piece of available government data related to a person over their entire lifetime.
Did you get flagged as suspicious while flying bc of 9/11. Did something end up on your record by complete mistake? In this centralized data base you could have all kinds of real and incorrect details associated with you (or even other people like friends, family, neighbors, coworkers) used to discriminate against you. Data becomes destiny.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 day ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
“You could read anyone’s email in the world, anybody you’ve got an email address for. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any laptop that you’re tracking: you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world. It’s a one-stop-shop for access to the NSA’s information. … You can tag individuals … Let’s say you work at a major German corporation and I want access to that network, I can track your username on a website on a forum somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what’s called a fingerprint, which is network activity unique to you, which means anywhere you go in the world, anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence, your identity.”
teft@piefed.social 1 day ago
Also remember that facial recognition has trouble with minority faces so if you get put on that list because some algorithm thought you were someone else you're fucked.