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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 it actually consulting fascist political parties on results of these analyses so they can more efficiently carry out fear mongering?

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Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Normally id say data protection laws but the administration does not care to prosecute laws.

Palantir says they dont share data between clients and I’m inclined to believe them because there is no evidence they do and it would be a huge break in the norms and most likely drive away a lot of their clients. Their business model is not consulting based on mystery data, its building software pipelines to clean and interpret the clients current data.

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- iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well these kind of companies are great at finding loopholes. Not sharing data and not consulting using your overall understanding of the playing field is different. And in most cases the latter means “refined understanding of statistical analyses” which is what most other companies needing data will be interested in.
  
  I do agree that their main business model is analysing data for clients but that does not mean that they can generate more revenue by other means. It seems like many big tech companies have a facade of a service that they provide but they have a lot of mechanisms behind the service that generates revenue for them. See Facebook, twitter etc whose data/platform has been used countless time to steer political decisions (unfortunately used mostly by right wing organizations).
  
  most likely drive away a lot of their clients. You would think so but today there are still left leaning politicians, academicians etc using twitter, two years after extreme right wing fear and war mongering of Felon Musk. All Palantir needs to do is amass sensitive and critical data across many different fields and consult interested parties (without breaking any of the contracts so they are not liable). It will be ages before they will start losing enough clients that their main business model will become unprofitable. Anyway, by then they will likely have enough money/influence to hop anywhere they want.
  
  I know this is all circumstantial so I will finish by adding one more circumstantial data. Look at the picture below and tell me Palantir will play fair with all the extremely sensitive knowledge it gains across defense, health, energy, transport etc
  
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