Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And that was before the NSA leaks.

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  • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And in case it wasn’t already clear enough how absurd this all is, the creeps at Palantir are now actually so brazen as to officially call one of their mass surveillance systems “Project Gotham”…brave new world.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I guess calling it “Project Barad Dur” was a bit too on the nose after they named themselves Palantir.

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      • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, maybe a bit much, but it would have been very fitting, since the marketing is obviously aimed specifically at the villains of the world—perhaps for the next project.

        It’s quite telling of the times we live in that you can make it so obvious these days. You’d think that at least some concealment of the intentions behind these mass surveillance products would be appropriate, but I guess with people like Trump in the White House, Putin in the Kremlin, Netanyahu in Israel, and many others of that caliber, it’s no longer necessary.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They're openly mocking us being dumbfounded and complacent.

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