<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon<br />| from the i-blame-the-elves dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 26, @13:59 (Government)<br />| with 201 comments<br />| <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]hessian tips a story in BusinessWeek about Palantir, a system designed<br />to aggregate disparate data points gathered by intelligence agencies and<br />weave them into a more useful narrative. The article summarizes it thus:<br />"Depending where you fall on the spectrum between civil liberties<br />absolutism and homeland security lockdown, Palantir’s technology is<br />either creepy or heroic." "The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a<br />speeding ticket, which triggers an alert in the CIA's Palantir system. An<br />analyst types Fikri's name into a search box and [1]up pops a wealth of<br />information pulled from every database at the government's disposal.<br />There's fingerprint and DNA evidence for Fikri gathered by a CIA<br />operative in Cairo; video of him going to an ATM in Miami; shots of his<br />rental truck's license plate at a tollbooth; phone records; and a map<br />pinpointing his movements across the globe. All this information is then<br />displayed on a clearly designed graphical interface that looks like<br />something Tom Cruise would use in a Mission: Impossible movie."<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href="http://www.deathmetal.org/">http://www.deathmetal.org/</a><br />1. <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html">http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html</a></p>