A Boring Dystopia

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Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why are you doing evil work..? Like... Why develop these tools that will so obviously be used to worsen our lives?

[–] False@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Gotta eat. Blame the system that creates this incentive not some individual wageslave

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but you can choose how to earn ypur living. It is unlikely they cannot do amy other job.

[–] Saarth@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I think coming out of an MBA, this is one of the less harmful jobs. I'd rather not be in consulting or investment banking or sales or big tech.

[–] guy@piefed.social 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like ICE

[–] False@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I feel like there's a big difference between snatching people off the street and making ad targeting smarter. Yeah they both suck, but orders of magnitude here.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

making ad targeting smarter

The word you're looking for is "spying".

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes of course, but the excuse is the same

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can use a knife to open a box or open a person. Are these things the same because I used the same tool?

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm not American so I don't know the tools ICE uses and if social listening or whatever it is called is one of those tools. But if your reasoning for opening the box and the reasoning for opening the person is the same.. well it's the same. Different outcomes, same reason

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 months ago

when these types of tools are used to decide whomto snatch I hope that is cold comfort

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I agree but at the same time, in a different thread who's topic specifically is shaming a company for working on the white house, people are foaming from their mouths that someone is working for Trump and downvote anyone who disagrees. The double standard is just mine blowing.

[–] Saarth@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I've been working mostly on the analysis side of things, currently I do this for a consumer goods company.

And yes I do it to make a living. Got hired as an analyst in this field out of MBA and stayed in this. Also being chronically online and familiar with social networks helped.