German Court Places Limits On Mass Surveillance Enabled By Peter Thiel’s Palantir Software

TL;DR

The stuff advertisers like is also stuff the government likes. Handling a lawsuit filed in response to a law passed in Hamburg that granted the government permission to use Palantir’s powerful surveillance software, the court arrived at this conclusion:That’s always been the problem with bulk collections and the software that enables these collections. But even if it doesn’t, Hamburg residents are now slightly more insulated from government overreach

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