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China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn’t have oneAt least China is honest about its surveillance dystopia. In Trump’s America, we pretend Palantir isn’t worse.
Updated July 21, 2022
At least China is honest about its surveillance dystopia. In Trump’s America, we pretend Palantir isn’t worse.
Between 2013 and 2016, 87 million people had their data harvested by Cambridge Analytica. The psychometric profiles gleaned from the personality quiz they created were used without their owners’ consents for political purposes and likely influenced the results of the 2016 US presidential election—and potentially many more. If the cataclysmic scandal taught us anything, it was that some of the secrets of the data trade wars are buried in the fine print no one reads.