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Monday, July 31, 2017

Life Imitates Art - "The Minority Report" & Palantir Co.

From The Guardian of the UK

Palantir, the hi-tech US firm, operates along lines that call to mind the methods used by law enforcement in sci-fi movie 'Minority Report'. But it is all for real.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/30/palantir-peter-thiel-cia-data-crime-police

Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google

www.theguardian.com

Peter Thiel’s CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its ‘crime predicting’ techniques against insurgents in Iraq. The same methods are now being sold to police departments.

Will they inflame already tense relations between the public and the police?

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