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2018-04-13 -Land of the Free

Peter Thiel's Curious Ties to Cambridge Analytica Scandal Raise Eyebrows

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[PJ] What makes this so interesting is that Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, who is also a board member and early investor in Facebook. What does this mean? A Facebook board member was possibly connected to the harvesting of Facebook data that created a huge privacy breach.

On Tuesday, Christopher Wylie, a data expert and Cambridge Analytica co-founder, testified to British lawmakers that "there were senior Palantir employees that were also working on the Facebook data."

According to an article in Mashable, "Thiel donated $1,000,000 in October of 2016 to the Super PAC Make America Number 1 ‐ an organization that paid Cambridge Analytica $231,352 toward the end of the same year, an FEC filing shows."

"In other words, a portion of Thiel's wealth ‐ some of which was derived from his early investment in Facebook ‐ likely made its way into the coffers of Cambridge Analytica via Make America Number 1. "

Do you see the connection here? A Facebook board member appears to be involved in the data loss scandal that’s created Facebook’s biggest crisis yet, but Zuckerberg claims he’s unaware of the connection. He’s either not telling all he knows or he’s terribly naïve and being taken advantage of by his board member.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-13 02:27|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Campaign contributions are the sitting squirrel. The issue to make note of here is Palantir, a highly effective intelligence community social network tool.

Forget the political contribs, it's the end user we should be concerned about. Yes of course, Zuck made his tens of billions via advertising. 'My Pillow' teevee adds, that sort of thing. A farthing here, a farthing there. Took him several decades but it all adds up.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-13 02:36|| 2018-04-13 02:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Little surprise.

First Google's safe harbor data barges indexing (the world's) data.
Then the timely completion of NSA's new Utah data center to house the Google product.
And now Palantir link analysis mining of Facebook networks and photos.

All events spanning 2008-2016.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-13 10:10|| 2018-04-13 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Peter Thiel is a silicon valley venture cap that invests in everything. Tesla, SpaceX, Google, Facebook .... on and on.
It's like saying GE has a lot of biz arms they are an arm of Satan. They might be losing stock value but they are still the biggest firm on the planet because that's what they grew into.

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-13 10:48|| 2018-04-13 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember next time you use PayPal that Peter was one of the founders.

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-13 10:50|| 2018-04-13 10:50|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-13 10:56|| 2018-04-13 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you Jack. GE has never been the same.

Posted by Zenobia Grumble6050 2018-04-13 11:18|| 2018-04-13 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Remember next time you use PayPal that Peter was one of the founders.

So he knows when I contribute to Rantburg.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-13 11:48|| 2018-04-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 It is a big stretch to say an early investor in a company, one that became rich from that company, is connected with day to day operations years later.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-13 12:22|| 2018-04-13 12:22|| Front Page Top

#9 rjschwarz - no but with each use you contribute to his earnings. He sold but still gets $.

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-13 15:14|| 2018-04-13 15:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Fine, but the article is trying to connect dots that are don't seem reasonable to connect.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-13 15:53|| 2018-04-13 15:53|| Front Page Top

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