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Palantir, Peter Thiel, Big Data, and the DHS
papersplease.org / March 15, 2017
San Francisco and Silicon Valley are among the centers of opposition to President Trump and his fascism, especially as it relates to restrictions on movement, border controls, immigration, and asylum.
Bay Area technology companies and their better-paid classes of employees like to think of themselves as building a better world that reflects the distinctive values that have attracted dreamers and futurists to this region from across the country and around the world. But some of these companies are key developers and providers of “big data” tools for the opposite sort of “Brave New World”.
On Saturday, Edward Hasbrouck of the Identity Project was invited to speak to an ad hoc group of picketers outside the Pacific Heights mansion of Palantir Technologies founder and Trump supporter Peter Thiel (photo gallery from the SF Chronicle, video clip from KGO-TV; more photos from the East Bay Express).
As Anna Weiner reported in the New Yorker (“Why Protesters Gathered Outside Peter Thiel’s Mansion This Weekend“):
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Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2017/03/15/palantir-peter-thiel-big-data-and-the-dhs/
