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A company created to fight terrorists is watching Americans.

In 2004, American businessman Peter Thiel, inspired by the “Lord of the Rings,” founded Palantir Technologies, a company that analyzes big data and thus helps prevent terrorist attacks and search for criminals. True, according to Bloomberg, over time, the company has become a global tool for spying on ordinary Americans.

The company Palantir Technologies was founded by Peter Thiel - a businessman who stood at the origins of the PayPal payment service, the first investor and member of the board of directors of Facebook, the founder of several venture capital funds, writes Medusa.

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Forbes estimates his fortune at 2,5 billion dollars. He is a libertarian and says that he works to create “new spaces of freedom”, including on the Internet. In 2016, he donated 1,25 a million dollars to the election campaign of Donald Trump, and after his victory he was a member of the president’s transition team.

Thiel financed the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against publication. Gawkerwhich in 2007 wrote about his homosexuality. The proceedings ravaged the holding Gawker Media and led to the closure of the site and the sale of other resources of the company. His participation in the lawsuit Thiel explained by the fact that Gawker "Destroys lives for no reason." “I don’t believe that journalism means massive breaches of privacy,” he said.

Palantir Technologies was created in 2004 by Thiel and others from PayPal. The name is borrowed from the "Lord of the Rings", where palantira are stones that allow you to see the past and communicate at a distance. The CIA-affiliated organization has become an investor. In-Q-Telwhich invests money in technology companies to equip intelligence with the latest developments. Products Palantir used to analyze big data. “Programs are combing different data sources - financial documents, air ticket bookings, cellular data, posts in social networks - and looking for connections that analysts can skip, then visualizing them in the form of colorful and clear graphics, like a web,” writes Bloomberg.

The first customers of the company were the US military and intelligence. Her products were used to search for bombs and militants and, according to rumors, even to establish the location of Osama bin Laden. Peter Thiel said that using big data is better than “crazy violations and draconian rules” that appeared in the US after the September 11 attacks, and giving intelligence the best tools is a way to avoid a police state. Then to Palantir other government departments began to contact, including the FBI, the police and private companies - and, as BloombergTheir use of these products raises many questions: “the intelligence platform created for the war against terror has been turned into a weapon against ordinary Americans.”

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In 2009 year Palantir made an agreement with the largest US bank JPMorgan Chase. The bank was very proud of this cooperation and said that it would turn the “data fields into gold mines”. Products Palantir used to prevent possible fraud and irregularities, including by bank employees. Engaged in this, as he writes Bloomberg, 120 seconded staff Palantir each of which cost the bank up to three thousand dollars a day. They were led by an employee JPMorgan, former Secret Service agent Peter Cavicchia.

“The Kavikkyi group collected mail and browsing history in the browser, GPS data from corporate smartphones, data on downloading and operation of printers, and decryption of telephone conversations. Program Palantir aggregated, checked, sorted and analyzed this data, highlighting keywords and behavioral patterns that were marked as corresponding to a potential violation, ”the agency writes. Over time, according to the testimony of the former employees of the bank, the company began to suspect Kavikkyu of abusing his unlimited powers; The situation at the company at the time they call the "mixture of Wall Street and the Apocalypse Today." “Some employees deliberately left out false information in their posts to check if Kavikkya would later mention her at meetings — and he did.”

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Kavikkya left JPMorgan after in 2013, the bank managers learned that he was following them too. It happened like this. After leaked to the media data about the federal investigation into JPMorgan in the company started checking. It turned out that Kavikkya had read the management's correspondence about the progress of the investigation and informed the suspect, who had left the company shortly before. Kavikkya was forced to leave; he joined the intruder in his new company. JPMorgan, according to Bloomberg, after this significantly limited the use of products Palantir.

Programs Palantir widely used by the police. In particular, the Los Angeles police use them in the Operation Laser project to identify potential criminals; There are 1300 people trained in police and other power structures in Southern California. Palantir. On the basis of various data, a database of potential violators is compiled, which the patrol officers must stop. Every time the police interrogate them, filling out a card with the names, addresses, car numbers, information from the person himself and personal impressions about him; These cards are processed by the program. The result is a constantly updated database, which also includes information about relatives, friends and sexual partners of potential criminals. This data is available without a warrant to anyone who can log in.

According to local activists, getting into this system creates problems for residents of criminal areas who are not in gangs. Bloomberg cites as an example the case of 22-year-old Manuel Rios, many of whose acquaintances are members of a local criminal gang and who himself had problems with the law. In 2016, when he was sitting with one of these friends in a car, the police pulled up. A friend ran away, but Rios stayed in the car, since “he is not in a gang”. The police detained him and photographed him with the words: "Welcome to the base of gang members." Since then, he was stopped on the street more than 12 times. Bloomberg also writes about a similar case in Chicago, where 31-year-old immigrant Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez mistakenly included two opposing groups in the composition, arrested and was about to be deported, until the court found the decision wrong.

Palantir was mentioned in the proceedings with the company Cambridge Analytica: In March, a former developer of the latter told that an employee Palantir helped Cambridge Analytica use data from millions of Facebook users to create psychological portraits of voters. AT Palantir claim that it was an employee’s personal initiative, and the company itself repeatedly refused to work with Cambridge Analytica.

Principle of operation Palantirthat involves costly product customization and the constant work of employees on the client side, is well suited for government structures and worse for commercial companies, writes Bloomberg; because of this Palantir more like a consulting firm than a traditional IT company. According to the agency, her hope for profitability lies with the latest product (Palantir foundry) which less requires attendance at the field Palantir and involves more automation. However, this will lead to the fact that even fewer decisions - including those affecting people's lives - will be made by people.

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