PETER GRIFFIN: What’s so bad about Palantir?

PETER GRIFFIN: What’s so bad about Palantir?
Peter Griffin
When Slate magazine in January compiled its “Evil List” of the top-30 tech companies “doing the most harm,” it ranked big data company Palantir Technologies at number four. The only companies that came in higher, as in more evil, were Google, Facebook and Amazon. But, while most people can see the influence of the big three when they do a Google search, scroll through their newsfeed or download an ebook, it's hard to sense the hidden hand of Palantir in their lives. It is one of the most secretive large tech companies in the world and as...

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