I don’t know how it operates under French law, but governments have been tending to use palantir’s services since it let’s them circumvent the procedure for issuing a warrant since a lot of the laws that require warrants to be procured were written in such a way that assumes that the government would be the only ones able to spy on their citizens, and thus make no provisions against corporations spying on people.
Comment on US tech firm Palantir extends deal with French intelligence agency
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Incredible that they’re still contracting an American company (one that is known to be controlled by particularly corrupt oligarchs) instead of building out their own capabilities.
Attacker94@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
tym@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s as if there’s a universal truth that crosses borders which we’re not privvy to. An upcoming need to prevent the springs of arabia from happening again across the lower classes, regardless of geography.
Maybe the real artificial intelligence were the friends we made along the way…
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I have mixed views on this.
On one hand I agree with you, especially when it comes to dealing with Palantir or really any company that can be influenced by the US, but on the other hand there are legitimate uses for such technologies in the sphere of national security and even public security.
I would argue it’s the citizens’ responsibility to make sure that the usage of such technologies is done in a framework of checks and balances (i.e. in a responsible manner).
I don’t believe in rhetoric about “the state infinitely expands surveillance capabilities”. The state is a reflection of the voters and there is no laws of physics or chemistry that guarantees such expansion via Brownian motion or what have you. If you do have institutions going overboard (be it the state or corporations), the root cause are the citizens (examples like NK or Eritrea notwithstanding).