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    Default This CIA-funded tool predicts crime before it happens

    A 2002 film adaptation of a 1956 Philip K. Dick novel warned us of the dangers of predictive policing. In ‘Minority Report,’ Tom Cruise’s character played a cop in the Los Angeles Police Department’s pre-crime unit. The futuristic tale saw Cruise, an officer tasked with nabbing baddies before they committed crimes, ultimately question the morality of jailing criminals before they’d committed the offense.
    While Cruise’s character pulled back, law enforcement in the real world is pushing forward with the same type of technology.
    Palantir — a CIA-backed startup created, in part, by PayPal’s billionaire co-founder Peter Thiel in 2004 — is a little-known tool that’s changing the world right under our noses.
    Once used to predict roadside bombs in Iraq based on patterns of previous deployment, Palantir is now being deployed here at home for everything from law enforcement to finance.
    The tool currently resides in a nondescript building on a back street in Palo Alto, California. From the outside, you might not think much of it. Inside, the technology is protected by walls that are impenetrable by radio waves, phone signals, or internet: its only means of entry secured with advanced biometrics, and pass codes held by dozens of independent parties whose identities are protected by blockchain technology.
    According to Palantir, the building “must be built to be resistant to attempts to access the information within it. The network must be ‘airgapped’ from the public internet to prevent information leakage.”

    The ‘eye in the sky’ — Palantir’s term, not mine — sifts through massive amounts of data, attempting to better derive useful information from its contents. For all the data we collect in the US (and there’s a lot of it), we’re not all that good at figuring out what to do with it aside from storing it and hoping the future versions of ourselves figure it out.
    Its client list includes the CIA, FBI, NSA, Center for Disease Control, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, and for good measure, the IRS. If using predictive AI to discern what future you might do based on past data creeps you out, it’s worth noting 50 percent of Palantir’s client roster is in the public sector.
    But it’s on the streets of Chicago and Los Angeles that Dick’s premonition of an Orwellian future is becoming reality. There, Palantir’s algorithms monitor previous crime data to create “hot spots” law enforcement officials then use to determine which areas need a larger police presence.
    At it’s surface, divvying up police cruisers based on which neighborhoods are most crime-ridden doesn’t sound like all that terrible an idea. It’s only when you consider that in some parts of the country, being black and male is often reason enough for the police to swoop in, and sometimes with deadly consequence.
    And it’s the data collected that’s cause for concern. It stands to reason that heavily-policed areas are always going to be responsible for more collared criminals, thus creating biases in the data set that could plague communities for years to come. The addition of predictive algorithms to, in effect, send officers to an area with the pre-conceived notion a crime is about to happen only fulfills the AI prophecy.
    Two males in hoodies walking down the street who might not have earned a second glance on a normal day now suddenly fit the description for a home invasion that happened hours earlier.
    It’s this level of militarization by police that puts law enforcement at odds with the communities they’re sworn to protect, and Palantir is only going to make it worse. Ana Muniz, an activist and researcher with the Inglewood-based Youth Justice Coalition told http://www.laweekly.com/news/forget-...folks-4473467:
    Any time that a society’s military and domestic police become more similar, the lines blur. The military is supposed to defend the territory from external enemies, that’s not the mission of the police – they’re not supposed to look at the population as an external enemy.
    Palantir can’t be pigeonholed as just a predictive AI for crime and terrorism, though. Its algorithms have the potential to be deployed on a variety of seemingly-mundane data sets that, when combined, paint a comprehensive picture of each of our daily lives. Worse, even if we were to go offline and not transmit a single bit of information on the internet for the rest of our days, the data needed to paint this picture already exists, and it’s sitting in storage just waiting to be utilized.
    It’s not Sci-Fi anymore. Advanced tools like Palantir create valuable meaning out of unorganized bulk data. And it’s this meaning that everyone from government organizations, hackers, or even corporations like Facebook and Amazon wants to get their hands on.
    For Palantir’s part, the software isn’t inherently evil. It’s a powerful tool used to sort data and form predictions based on its contents. It, like most things, is but a tool. Palantir is a cog in the system where data is power, and the apparatus is simply a means of extracting it.
    As the National Rifle Association once said: “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.”
    Like guns, Palantir seems to have a people problem.

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    Default Re: This CIA-funded tool predicts crime before it happens

    the CIA is crime before it happened.
    there are no rules in life ethical morality is false
    spent 4 yrs in amazon as i did and find out the ''construct'' of morality is only shamanic/witch-craft control of others
    those who make the rules break the rules ... there are no rules but fools.

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    http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/n...knew-about-it/

    Quote New Orleans Implemented a CIA Backed Predictive Policing Technology in Complete Secrecy in 2012 – Not even City Council Members knew about it
    February 27, 2018 by IWB

    PALANTIR HAS SECRETLY BEEN USING NEW ORLEANS TO TEST ITS PREDICTIVE POLICING TECHNOLOGY
    The program began in 2012 as a partnership between New Orleans Police and Palantir Technologies, a data-mining firm founded with seed money from the CIA’s venture capital firm. According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, the initiative was essentially a predictive policing program, similar to the “heat list” in Chicago that purports to predict which people are likely drivers or victims of violence.
    <snip>
    Predictive policing technology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s signature NOLA For Life program. Thanks to its philanthropic status, as well as New Orleans’ “strong mayor” model of government, the agreement never passed through a public procurement process.
    In fact, key city council members and attorneys contacted by The Verge had no idea that the city had any sort of relationship with Palantir, nor were they aware that Palantir used its program in New Orleans to market its services to another law enforcement agency for a multimillion-dollar contract.
    http://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17...w-orleans-nopd
    Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google
    Peter Thiel’s CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its ‘crime predicting’ techniques against insurgents in Iraq. The same methods are now being sold to police departments. Will they inflame already tense relations between the public and the police?

    <snip>
    Palantir watches everything you do and predicts what you will do next in order to stop it. As of 2013, its client list included the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the Centre for Disease Control, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point and the IRS. Up to 50% of its business is with the public sector. In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm, was an early investor.
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...a-crime-police
    In January 2013, New Orleans would also allow Palantir to use its law enforcement account for LexisNexis’ Accurint product, which is comprised of millions of searchable public records, court filings, licenses, addresses, phone numbers, and social media data. The firm also got free access to city criminal and non-criminal data in order to train its software for crime forecasting. Neither the residents of New Orleans nor key city council members whose job it is to oversee the use of municipal data were aware of Palantir’s access to reams of their data.
    http://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17...w-orleans-nopd
    According to Serpas, the person who initially ran New Orleans’ social network analysis from 2013 through 2015 was Jeff Asher, a former intelligence agent who joined NOPD from the CIA.
    http://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17...w-orleans-nopd
    Look at who all was involved in getting this thing off the ground:
    As part of the resilient cities network, New Orleans will get help for staffing, technical support and other resources to create and implement a plan for strengthening the city’s infrastructure, technology and other areas. The Clinton Global Initiative gathered some of the project partners — which include Palantir Technologies, the American Institute of Architects and Architecture for Humanity — in New York in late September. Mayor Mitch Landrieu was there and noted that New Orleans would be a natural fit for the project.
    The Rockefeller Foundation initiative will use data to help cities identify risks, look for ways to use technology and improve infrastructure. Palantir is using its expertise to develop a “resilience dashboard” for cities to improve their strategic planning and decide on the smartest capital investments.
    http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.s...emplar_of.html

    h/t Daniel Higdon
    Well, the above is very disturbing and surprising. I accidently saw this while looking at some things on stopthecrime.net.

    The connections to the Clinton Global Initiative, the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Institute for Architects and Architecture for Humanity (that sounds ominous) are standard. New Orleans and Mayor Mitch Landrieu sold out (not surprising; he is all about himself and being a celebrity) for money for the city, which of course will go into the pockets of those who play the game. New Orleans is very corrupt in its' public works.

    I imagine they use this technology to target dissidents like me. I was targeted around this time, in New Orleans. Go figure.
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