Serving the highest bidder and a vision of utopia, Palantir is leading a new wave of private technology firms turned into state-backed intelligence-giants
Nearly two decades after the company was founded using a CIA investment, Palantir Technologies went public in a major stock market offering.
For the CIA, data mining, computing and surveillance are the keys to the future, and that’s where Palantir comes in.Palantir first became notorious for stories that circulated alleging that the software it designed was responsible for finding Osama bin Laden. Newspapers picked up the story from former Navy Seal Mark Bowden’s book, detailing his role in hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden.
Its sales pitch gives a lot away. It’s named after a crystal ball in Lord of the Rings, which allows one to see all and know all, in the present and future. In a nutshell, Palantir solved one of intelligence’s oldest problems: you can collect all the information in the world, but you’ll still need a lot of human help to make sense of it.Going mainstream
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