I’m not sure, but that’s a good question.

I believe Ukraine used Palantir against Russia, but when the U.S. becomes involved in a proxy war (even if it’s to defend a nation that was clearly invaded by a leader who posed a global threat) it’s hard to know what is actually chosen by the country vs provided as is.

What could possibly go wrong?

Worst case, it’s sold to ICE or some other fascist regime.

Every single government that has a contract with Palantir for Gotham or even whatever the fuck they’re doing with the UK NHS data, is reason enough to know this kind of shit is a bad idea. The entire existence of Palantir makes this kind of shit a bad idea by default.

Even if they’re not using lavender or where’s daddy (yet), I do not want them to have a detailed layout of my home, in addition to all the other information already being collected.

If the day comes when any government needs to crush civil unrest, Palantir gives them an easy button to weaponize your data against you.

“Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.

“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”

In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”