Palantir

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer faced a grilling from U.K. lawmakers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The data of 87 million Facebook users was harvested and sent to Cambridge Analytica. Palantir confirmed earlier this year that one of its staff had links to Cambridge Analytica.

Just as the Cambridge Analytica drama is fading (somewhat) from memory, Bloomberg Businessweek is out with a sobering cover story about Peter Thiel's mysterious data-mining company. "Do you know Palantir?" type on the April 20 cover asks. "Because Palantir knows you." The cover image is ...

While we're on data: JPMorgan hired a security expert to keep an eye on bank staff, but there's controversy about whether or not he went too far -- using software by Palantir, Peter Thiel's data-mining company, to collect GPS locations, phone conversation transcripts and more. Finally, it's 4/20, but marijuana ...

Cavicchia ran his own little security state inside Morgan Stanley, with 120 Palantir staff who worked in an off-limits special floor high above the bank's own security department, invading the bank's employees' privacy without any limits or oversight, all the way up to the most senior level. The bank spent ...

Palantir, a data-mining company created by Peter Thiel, is aiding government agencies by tracking American citizens using the War on Terror, as detailed in Bloomberg's Businessweek cover story. How it works: The software analyzes items such as financial documents, cellphone records, social media ...

Many of the Palantir engineers rode skateboards to the bank's Manhattan HQ and refused to cut their hair or wear a tie – each cost the bank $3,000 a day. They helped Cavicchia's group to collect and analyze bank personnel's emails and browser histories, GPS locations from company-issued smartphones ...

Senator Maria Cantwell tried to get answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the role secretive data mining company Palantir may have played in the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. News reports said that Palantir was a player that helped CA gather data on Facebook. Zuckerberg said ...

The Silicon Valley data analysis firm Palantir Technologies lacked a comprehensive policy for handling social media data in 2014, when one of its employees helped Cambridge Analytica acquire private information on as many as 87 million Facebook users, BuzzFeed News has learned. Palantir insiders ...

A New Orleans judge on Tuesday granted a defense lawyer's request to issue subpoenas to Mayor Mitch Landrieu and other officials for records about whether and how the city used controversial crime-fighting software from a company called Palantir to investigate Central City's 3NG street gang. Landrieu ...

Hey, you know what's a terrifying company? Palantir, the data-oriented intelligence firm co-founded by Peter Thiel with $2 million in seed money from the C.I.A.'s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. This week, The New York Times reported that a Palantir employee in London came up with the idea to use a bullshit ...

It was a Palantir employee in London, working closely with the data scientists building Cambridge's psychological profiling technology, who suggested the scientists create their own app — a mobile-phone-based personality quiz — to gain access to Facebook users' friend networks, according to documents ...

LONDON — Both Peter Thiel's data-mining company Palantir and a daughter of the former Google chairman Eric Schmidt had connections to Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Facebook user information, according to documents seen by The New York Times. "We learned today that an employee, in 2013-2014, engaged in ...

A data crunching firm co-founded by Facebook board member Peter Thiel is investigating links between one of its employees and Cambridge Analytica. Palantir Technologies acknowledged Wednesday that one of its employees had contacted workers at Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that ...

As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014, the company received help from at least one employee at Palantir Technologies, a top Silicon Valley contractor to American spy agencies and the Pentagon. It was a Palantir ...

Palantir is a controversial data analytics firm co-founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel. The company, which does business with the military and major intelligence agencies, has contracted with ICE since 2014. As journalist Spencer Woodman reported last year, the company developed a special system ...

Palantir allegedly worked with Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of a controversy involving data harvested from Facebook users, according to whistleblower Christopher Wylie. Palantir worked on the Facebook data that was acquired by Cambridge Analytica, Wylie claims. But there was no official ...

The U.S. Army recently announced that Palantir won the contract to build the new battlefield intelligence platform. Palantir has a great reputation for use on the battlefield, especially for counter-IED functions, and has attained an almost legendary status among some analysts and communities in the Army.

Data crunching firm Palantir Technologies is denying claims made by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie that it has links to the controversial company. Wylie, a former contractor for Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm at the center of a debate over how social media data is used, ...

Public records requests have shown that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- who have continued and intensified Obama's program of mass deportations and separation of families under Trump -- uses Facebook's logs, merged with logs from cellular carriers and analyzed by software from Palantir ...

The Palantir Technologies program called "Gotham" allows officials at the department to analyze crime networks and trends. Craig Belden, a spokesman for the Mayor's Office, said in a statement that the technology is no longer being utilized in day-to-day operations, and "therefore, will not be renewed.".

Two weeks ago, The Verge reported the existence of a six-year predictive policing collaboration between the New Orleans Police Department and Palantir Technologies, a data mining giant co-founded by Peter Thiel. The nature of the partnership, which used Palantir's network-analysis software to identify ...

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's office said the city does not plan to renew its contract with Palantir Technologies, a tech firm that provided data analysis for the NOPD and multiagency gang unit. City Hall in downtown New Orleans is pictured on Thursday, January 12, 2017. (Photo by Chris Granger, ...

A new Army contract will give Palantir Technologies the opportunity it has been fighting for: to sell its commercial software to the Army as way to field the next iteration of the Distributed Common Ground System - Army. DCGS-A is a battlefield network for gathering and sharing information and data about the ...

Palantir, the software maker once valued at $20 billion, has seen its share price marked down by investors of late. But CEO Alex Karp isn't deterred. In an interview that was airing Wednesday, Karp told CNBC his company is signing on more corporate customers and public market investors will be ...

In May and June 2013, when New Orleans' murder rate was the sixth-highest in the United States, the Orleans Parish district attorney handed down two landmark racketeering indictments against dozens of men accused of membership in two violent Central City drug trafficking gangs, 3NG and the 110ers.

Palantir Technologies Inc. has been ordered by a judge to share some financial information with a disgruntled former investor it has been locked in a legal battle with for the past two years. Judge Joseph Slights of the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled, according to Reuters, that the investor showed he had ...

If you watched Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before Congress earlier this month, you might have heard Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell questioning the Facebook CEO about his awareness of a company called Palantir. Cantwell's first question to Zuckerberg was: "Do you know who Palantir is?

A division of Waltham-based defense contractor Raytheon Co. will work with Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies Inc. on an $876 million project to develop a new intelligence system for the U.S. Army. The two companies were awarded the contract last week for the Army's Distributed Common Ground ...

Palantir will work with Raytheon Co. to replace the troubled Distributed Common Ground System. They beat out seven other proposals for a decadelong, $876-million contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Terms of the partnership between Palantir and Raytheon weren't disclosed, and the ...

Peter Thiel's data mining company Palantir Technologies has won a US Army contract to develop an intelligence platform that will replace an aging system that the Army currently used to collect and disseminate information, according to Bloomberg Technology. The Army will pay Palantir and defense ...

Bloomberg: "Palantir Knows Everything About You" — "Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company's engineers and products don't do any spying themselves; they're more like a spy's brain, ...