Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I used to run in consulting circles, long enough time around execs and you start to see just how well the good ol boy clubs, and know-a-guy chains can make business deals between firms. Once you get the ball rolling on a project as a large enough entity, it doesn't take much to consult the digital equivalent of their rolodex to find vendor upon vendor for this part, this data broker, etc.
Cheaper in bulk too.
They buy it from data brokers. Some governments are limited on what they can store where companies can store whatever they want as long as it is "legitimate interest"
It is worse because if you gpdr Facebook they only have to remove you from their data sets not their partners who scalp the Facebook datasets.
Yeah the whole idea that "the government isn't allowed to collect/store that information" is immediately invalidated when they just buy it from private companies and get it from foreign countries spying on their own citizens through intelligence sharing agreements.
What do you think Elon Musk is doing with all the data they pulled out of all the agencies they infiltrated at the beginning of the presidency. It’s all being sold to these fascist corporations.
I always though discord was bad too, because all they clean is the username attached to your messages. So it can be very easy to know who sent them.
That's not correct. Under the GDPR, the data that Facebook collects on you, makes them the Data Controller. Any partners they share data with would be considered Data Processors. When you invoke your right to be forgotten under the GDPR, then both Data Controllers and Data Processors must delete your data. So if Facebook partners isn't deleting your data after you filed a request to Facebook, then they are violating the GDPR.
That said Facebook is certainly violating the GDPR left and right. For example with their "Pay or Consent" model...
I mean you shouldn’t work for them to begin with for a thousand moral reasons.
That's what confuses me. How do you have enough moral character to quit over the CEO's support of Israel but you're totally fine with the core business model of surveillance state services.
Mass surveillance is bad, but I'm not sure there's a crime worse than genocide.
Honestly..fuck you if you work here anyway.
One prominent example in Australia is via one of the two biggest nationwide supermarket chains, Coles: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/coles-to-run-palantir-analytics-suite-across-its-supermarkets-604698
His hair looks like my un trimmed pubes.
They don't. They sell tools to governments and companies, that the clients use with their own data, that they already have. Palantir doesn't do the spying or data harvesting, and they don't have any data of their own, they develop and sell tools that clients use with whatever data the clients have.
They make the spy tools, they are not doing the spying.
The short answer is basically everywhere they can find data.
Their clients feed them with data. Given that Peter Thiel is behind Palantir, you can also pretty much count on all the big social media companies cooperating with them.
They also just steal data from their clients. At least one US military branch is suing them over doing exactly that during one of their contracts.
I guess they buy it from data brokers and also their clients give them their data.
Alex Karp is a fascist.
Hear this crazy thought:
be as anonymous as you can and don't share your personal data over the internet.
Even if you never went online, heaps of data about you is collected and sold.
And if you are online, the "be as anonymous as you can and don’t share your personal data over the internet." statement makes it sound easy, which is far from true. It's a constant game of whack-a-mole where one needs incredibly disciplined to compartmentalize and segregate login sessions across browsers and devices. If one isn't technically skilled and constantly vigilant, it's a losing battle. That's why awareness and campaigns that support privacy focused regulation are important.
As I said "as anonymous as you CAN", which is better than posting the photos of your birthday on Instagram or whatever people do these days.
Bro looks like the last Q-tip in the box
they buy it from data brokers, from the platforms, from other companies, probably from governments.
He looks like an anthropomorphic piece of shit.
