Ross Dakin
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Ross Dakin
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I miss the good old days (Gmail was red, calendar was blue...)
July 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
🚨 Palantir. Peter Thiel. Mass surveillance.

The U.S. government is quietly building a massive, interconnected surveillance network—and it’s being powered by a private company founded by a billionaire who openly opposes democracy.

I broke it all down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Objection: They’re Building the Surveillance State in Plain Sight
The U.S. just supercharged a private surveillance empire—powered by a billionaire who openly opposes democracy.
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
On Tuesday a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demos at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, which is hosted by a think tank founded by Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public, including journalists. www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.
www.wired.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM