Palantir Exec Fires Back at ‘Surveillance State’ Claims

There's a lot that's said about Palunteer enabling a surveillance state. I just want to give you a chance to respond to that. >> We don't collect data. We don't have any data. It'd be like it'd be like accusing Excel of being a surveillance tool, right? It's like this is a way of bringing your your own data that you have lawful authorities to collect together to make decisions. Sounds a lot like Excel, you know, because we are unabashedly patriotic and serve the US military. I think people have a kind of colored view of these things. I would argue that it's actually Excel with cell by cell. You know, it' be as Karp says, it's the

most insane platform in the world to try to do something illegal in because you are going to be caught. That was part of the idea of how do you enhance privacy and security? It's how do you build more civil liberties protections in how do you have a normative view that enables a democracy to say these are laws and rules. The system will enforce it. We're not just relying on people happening to do the correct thing. I think at the limit it's actually kind of indefensible to have a perspective other than lawful use because if you are salami slicing the policy that's actually tyranny by techb bro. You know, a small number of people are constraining the maneuver space of a democracy with no

accountability to the populace.