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Glitch in FBI's controversial 'Palantir' software allowed unauthorized agency employees to access private data for more than a year
2021-08-27
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Prosecutors say they obtained a search warrant to legally access the private Twitter and Facebook data of Virgil Griffith

  • Griffith was charged in 2019 after allegedly teaching North Koreans how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions

  • Prosecutors said they uploaded Griffith's social media data to Palantir

  • FBI agents investigating other cases had access to the data for more than a year
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Posted by:Skidmark

#5  Oh, this wasn't a glitch. It was 100% intended.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616   2021-08-27 12:14  

#4  Grinding my teeth here. Worked for a very short time for a consultancy whose owner routinely closed deals with the assertion that the software would work "out of the box" as in no setup, training, maintenance, etc.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-27 11:02  

#3  Glitch = The customers messed around with the settings (Without telling the Supplier) and gave un-authorized access to individuals by mistake.

Customer Malfeasance.
Posted by: Charles   2021-08-27 09:52  

#2  Glitch = Feature
Posted by: Airandee    2021-08-27 07:24  

#1  

As one Law Enforcement person said
Palantir is Google on Steroids for personal data collection.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-08-27 05:35  

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