The company risks becoming the face of Mr. Trump's political agenda, four employees said, and could be vulnerable if data on Americans is breached or hacked. Several tried to distance the company from the efforts, saying any decisions about a merged database of personal information rest with Mr. Trump and not the firm.
13 former employees signed on to a letter urging Palantir to end its work for the regime.
Writing for The Banter, progressive podcaster Bob Cesca, responded:
Does anyone seriously believe the Trump government is competent enough to protect the system from being breached? If the database were hacked, as Palantir workers warned, the consequences would be nightmarish, far worse than having to change your passwords or order a new credit card. The dark web would have easy access to your Social Security number, your tax returns, your bank accounts, and more. Worse, due to mass firings of federal workers, it'd be nearly impossible for millions of us to conduct damage control.
That's the real concern.
But are people going to be sufficiently outraged to take to the streets over this? Probably not since we have become collectively inured to cool technology like the iPhone's Siri, Amazon Alexa, social media platforms, websites we visit, and the devices we carry with us everywhere every day chronicling our motions and conversations for the sake of marketing convenience. We have over the past decade and a half allowed the surveillance state to infiltrate our private spaces-- exactly the objective those who control the information required to compile mind-boggling amounts of information on all of us, whether we want them to or not. Just the thing an authoritarian regime like the one clamping down on dissent at the moment needs to solidify power.
How many of our freedoms do we have to lose before they're irretrievable?(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
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