Its technology tracks a range of online and offline databases used by militants planning attacks, and has been applied to major cases such as aiding the long U.S. search for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a commando raid on his Pakistan hideout in 2011.
“Our company was founded in Silicon Valley. But we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments,” chief executive Alex Karp wrote in the filing announcing its plans to sell shares to the public. “We have chosen sides, and we know that our partners value our commitment.” He also states clearly in every chance that the core mission of Palantir is to make the United States the strongest in the world.
In a report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, titled as “At The Future of Government 2030+ A Citizen Centric Perspective on New Government Models” Palantir’s function for future governments is quoted as: “In Silicon Valley, one of the most richly valued start-ups is an intelligence platform designed for the global war on terror. The Palantir software is an intelligence platform that collects, matches and analyses information. Disparate data sources from financial documents, airline reservations, cell phone records, social media postings, etc. are examined to find patterns and connections. AI analytics go far beyond the capabilities and speed of humans. The first application field was the work of the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. The military success led to the spread of federal contracts among civilians in the U.S. Palantir is also used by European governments, such as in the UK and Denmark. The police of the German federal state Hesse has been testing Palantir Gotham software to track Salafis since 2017. Critiques see issues in the connection of database silos in which personal data is stored; for privacy reasons and data security regulation the information must be separated. Others see the risk that via the software secret police database information might be opened up for the U.S. intelligence services which are working with the same software.”
Pentagon created a project named Lifelog which aimed to collect as much personal information as possible about someone, from messages, phone calls to personal choices. It was aimed to map a network of memories, relationships, events and experiences among people. DARPA closed this project over privacy concerns on 2 February 2004. One of the groups who were keen on it was AI specialists who wanted to use the collection of personal information of individuals to improve the AI. Only two days after it was killed, Facebook was created with same purposes, only based on willingness of people to share all personal information publicly, including the fact that later on Facebook started to make it a requirement that users add their phone numbers on their accounts, which enabled sharing of personal phone calls and messaging between GSM operators and Facebook.
Thiel became Facebook’s first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake for $500,000 in August 2004. Peter Thiel’s Palantir was seeded in part by In-Q-Tel, the C.I.A. ‘s venture-capital arm, and the C.I.A. remained a client. Not limited to the U.S. intelligence, Palantir worked with several foreign intelligence to counter terrorism as an expert at data-integration. George Soros is one of the investors who has been interested in both Palantir and Facebook. Soros bought more than 159,000 shares of Facebook, valued at close to $31 million. He also has approximately $4 billion in assets at Palantir. NATO’s think tank Atlantic Council is another common point between Palantir and George Soros. Open Society Foundation of George Soros and Digital Forensic Lab of Facebook are two of the major contributors of The Atlantic Council. Employees of Palantir also work for Atlantic Council. Lisa Hawkins is an example to it. She is a Research Analyst, Recruiting Coordinator at Palantir Technologies, while at the same time an Executive Assistant to the President and CEO at Atlantic Council. Ahmed Humayun is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, also a business developer at Palantir.
Palantir is known to have close ties with Trump. Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel helped Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. In 2016, he donated more than $1m to the US President Donald Trump. The top White House adviser and son-in-law of Trump, Jared Kushner, owner of Cadre, a real-estate startup he founded, links him to the Goldman Sachs Group and the mega-investors George Soros and Peter Thiel.
Thiel, whose estimated $2.1bn fortune was fuelled by the sale of PayPal and an early investment in Facebook, funded the Hulk Hogan invasion of privacy case that bankrupted gossip news site Gawker and has given generously to conservative politicians. By contrast, chief executive Alex Karp, who met Thiel when they both attended Stanford Law School, is a self-described neo-Marxist and “card-carrying progressive”, with a doctorate degree in neo-classical social theory from a Goethe University in Germany.
Palantir may be an American company, but it actually employs more people in London – just shy of 600 – than in either its Silicon Valley base or Denver headquarters. That reflects both the work it does for European clients including BP, Airbus and Ferrari – but also its UK government contracts, which predate the coronavirus pandemic by several years. These have included work with GCHQ’s cyber-spies as well as publicly declared work for the Ministry of Defence. Palantir has also been accused of having “blood on its hands” by civil rights protesters. They object to its tech being used to identify places where illegal immigrants are working so the properties can be raided and those arrested deported. In fact, the firm has effectively become the bogeyman of surveillance tech. Government contracts accounted for 54% of Palantir’s revenue in the first half of 2020, according to the filing, bringing in $257 million, a 76% year-on-year uptick.
In 2009 and 2010 respectively, Information Warfare Monitor used Palantir software to uncover the GhostNet and the Shadow Network. The GhostNet was a China-based cyber espionage network targeting 1,295 computers in 103 countries, including the Dalai Lama’s office, a NATO computer and various national embassies. The Shadow Network was also a China-based espionage operation that hacked into the Indian security and defense apparatus. Cyber spies stole documents related to Indian security and NATO troop activity in Afghanistan. The only early investments were $2 million from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, and $30 million from Thiel himself and his venture capital firm, Founders Fund. On June 18, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag held a press conference at the White House announcing the success of fighting fraud in the stimulus by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB). Biden credited the success to the software, Palantir, being deployed by the federal government. A document leaked to TechCrunch revealed that Palantir’s clients as of 2013 included at least twelve groups within the U.S. government, including the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization and Allies, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. However, at the time the United States Army continued to use its own data analysis tool. Also, according to TechCrunch, the U.S. spy agencies such as the CIA and FBI were linked for the first time with Palantir software, as their databases had previously been “siloed.” Palantir was used by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to verify if Iran is in compliance with the 2015 agreement.
In 2010, Hunton & Williams LLP allegedly asked Berico Technologies, Palantir, and HBGary Federal to draft a response plan to “The WikiLeaks Threat.” In early 2011 We, Anonymous, publicly released HBGary-internal documents, including the plan. The plan proposed that Palantir software would “serve as the foundation for all the data collection, integration, analysis, and production efforts.” The plan also included slides, allegedly authored by HBGary CEO Aaron Barr, which suggested “disinformation” and “disrupting” Glenn Greenwald’s support for WikiLeaks. Around December 3, it was believed consultants at US defence contractors Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and HBGary proposed an alliance to lawyers for a desperate Bank of America to discredit the whistleblowers’ website using a divide and conquer approach. The conspirators urged a disinformation war to “feed the fuel between feuding groups” that would include leaking fake documents to “call out the error”, creating “concern over the security of the infrastructure”, hacking Wikileaks to discover who the leakers were to “kill the project” and a media campaign to emphasise the “radical and reckless” nature of Wikileaks.
It has also been alleged that Palantir previously worked with Cambridge Analytica, the political analytics firm that illegally obtained the personal data of around 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge. The shadow of Palantir also appears on the sidelines of Cambridge Analytica, the British company that siphoned off the personal data of millions of Facebook users in the service of Donald Trump’s campaign. In March, a whistleblower, Christopher Wylie testified before British parliamentarians, citing Palantir. “One of the very first emails I received asked me what I knew about a company called Palantir,” says Christopher Wylie, then research director at Cambridge Analytica. When I arrived, the first question was, “Can we do something with Palantir? What do you think?” We had several meetings with Palantir, where I was also present. There were senior staff working on Facebook data. It was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica. But there were a lot of people from Palantir who came into our offices and worked on the data. ” SCL group is the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. Formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories, it is a private behavioural research and strategic communication company, founded in 1993 by Nigel Oakes. The son of Major John Waddington Oakes and a former boyfriend of Lady Helen Windsor, Oakes was formerly employed by Margaret Thatcher’s favourite advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, before establishing SCL. Cambridge Analytica, referred as the company of Steve Bannon in some sources as well, was launched in 2012 by SCL to extend its operations to the US. In partnership with hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, this included the Republican primaries for the 2016 election, where it worked to support Ted Cruz and then Donald Trump.
SCL first went public in 2005 at the DSEI conference, a global arms fair in London, promoting itself as the first private company to provide psychological warfare services to the British military. It had a demonstration about
the idea of UK government using a sophisticated media campaign of mass deception to fool the British people into thinking an accident at a chemical plant had occurred and threatened central London.
SCL carries a secret clearance as a ‘list X’ contractor for the MOD. A List X site is a commercial site on British soil that is approved to hold UK government information marked as ‘confidential’ and above. Essentially, SCL got the green light to hold British government secrets on its premises. SCL has had connections with British military, defense contractors, MI6, MI5, Queen’s advisors, hedge fund billionaires, conservative party members and more.
SCL provides “data, analytics and strategy to governments and military organizations worldwide,” notably the British Ministry of Defence, the US State Department and NATO. It states that it has carried out “behavioural change programs” in more than 60 countries. SCL has also had contracts with the Pentagon for psy-ops in Iran and Yemen. One of its first contracts in 1999 was promoting Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. It has worked to influence elections in Afghanistan, Latvia, Ukraine, Nigeria and Kenya among others. According to the Guardian, in 2014 “MoD officials worked with SCL Group on ‘Project Duco’ to analyse how people would interact with certain government messaging.” Project Duco was part of the government’s “human and social influence” work, and SCL was paid £150,000. It assessed how Target Audience Analysis (TAA) could “contribute to the government’s strategic communications.” SCL’s work on Project Duco and its “list X” ranking “is likely to raise concerns that government officials were aware of Cambridge Analytica and SCL’s operations, and intended to use them to promote government messages.” Cambridge Analytica and SCL were acting for significant sections of the US/UK military and intelligence apparatus.
Even, Foreign Office executive agency, Wilton Park, invited SCL Group subsidiary, SCL Elections, to speak about how the use of data in the 2016 Presidential election could be applied in the British government’s diplomatic and foreign policy agenda. SCL also examined the application of data in the recent US Presidential election. Having access to British government’s top secrets, SCL also aided Brexit campaign which contradicts with the EU’s benefits.
SCL methods were also used by the US and UK militaries in Iraq. A SCL whistle-blower stated that “some of this technology was actually owned by the UK Ministry of Defence and/or the US Military, and now they don’t want people to know that it was their weapon that’s currently in the wild, being used privately to manipulate elections worldwide.”
SCL received £548,000 for delivering training to NATO that included providing an eight-week course for its staff. This was “subsequently passed on to Georgian, Ukrainian and Moldovan government officials.” The US State Department has a contract for $500,000 with SLC to provide “research and analytical support in connection with our mission to counter terrorist propaganda and disinformation overseas.” “The NATO website said the ‘revolutionary’ training would ‘help Ukrainians better defend themselves against the Russian threat’.”
The tight relations between data management, mining and psyop companies, their social media counterparts to gather even more personal data and governments are proves that politicians of the member states of the European Union don’t hesitate to collaborate with the big technology companies from the United States or United Kingdom to deceive their citizens and do mass surveillance. They share any data and secrets with big bankers and foreign intelligence while manipulating elections on their favour. It shouldn’t come as surprise regulations like TERREG will only serve these agendas for further manipulation and the European citizens will not know for which actual reason the contents on the internet get changed or deleted.
There is a long historical background of Europe being politically undermined by the United States. It starts way before these data management companies started to get involved with corrupt European politicians to have deals behind closed doors. One of the examples with even audio records leaked is about Ukraine.
Victoria Jane Nuland was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State when the audio that included her conversation with the state department official got leaked. In that conversation U.S. strategy for replacing the Ukrainian government with a desired coalition of parties including Neo Nazis was discussed. It could be heard that Nuland said “fuck the EU” showing American politicians surpassed the European Union when it came to the decision of forming a new government on foreign soils. More than ever, with the dominance of American tech firms in Europe especially when it comes to data management of military, police and private information of citizens, the government of United States owns all kinds of data of 477 millions living in Europe.
It wasn’t only Ukranian incident those years which involved Europe and United States in corruption.
During Von Der Leyen’s ministry of defense, irregularities happened in a contract awarded to McKinsey and a €390 million ($442 million) IT contract given to another company that failed to pass through the company’s supervisory board. Von der Leyen hired Katrin Suder, a former McKinsey consultant, as her deputy to oversee the ministry’s arms procurement section. Von Der Leyen said, to defend herself: “It is undisputed that we need external advice for these necessary projects.”
McKinsey & Company provides strategy and management consulting services, such as providing advice on an acquisition, developing a plan to restructure a sales force, creating a new business strategy or providing advice on downsizing. While doing so, it uses structured frameworks to generate fact-based hypotheses followed by data gathering and analysis to prove or disprove the hypotheses. With the way it gathers data and analyses them, it resembles how Palantir works.
According to documentation in Palantir’s transparency register entry, a meeting between Von der Leyen and Palantir’s Alex Karp took place during the World Economic Forum in Davos on 22 January. It appears that at the head of the forum that year was a Bilderberg member, also named Børge Brende. However, a recent EURACTIV freedom of information request, which called for the Commission to release all documentation related to the meeting, revealed that in fact, the executive holds no records corresponding to the encounter. The news that the Commission holds no records of the meeting came as calls continue to rise about the importance of transparency between lobbyists and high-level political officials. “Unfortunately, this is another example of a growing list of Commissioners who have failed to keep any notes of their interactions with corporate lobbyists,” Margarida Silva, a researcher at the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), told EURACTIV. In this vein, a 2019 report from EUObserver revealed that the Commission had consistently failed to keep written records of discussions between Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová and leaders from global technology companies, a fact for which Jourová, who is now responsible for overseeing ‘transparency’ as part of her portfolio, later expressed regret. In the meantime, European institutions and Palantir have developed a closer professional relationship as well. This is true not only with regards to a revolving door for human resources — at least one senior analyst left Europol to spend one and a half years at Palantir before returning to Europol as a data protection specialist — but also consultation privileges; only recently, high-ranking Commission officials went to D.C, spoke with Palantir, and stayed for a presentation, while the Commission’s president Ursula Von der Leyen spoke with Palantir CEO Alex Karp in Davos off the record. Also Marxist philosopher and commentator, Diego Fusaro, in a post on Facebook, has dispelled about the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, and about the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde: both go to arm in arm with the Bilderberg group! Diego Fusaro writes: “Did you know that Ursula von der Leyen and Christine Lagarde were at the Bilderberg group meeting? Von der Leyen in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019. The Bilderberg group, of course, has chosen to place them at the top of the European institutions to protect the good of the peoples and the working classes ” We see that name in the list of participants for that year on the official website of Bilderberg. One of the most important factors in her election as president is that the Bilderberg group exerts pressure on the parliament. Another detail about connection between EU and Palantir is that, in March 2019, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles De Kerchove, Deputy Director General Olivier Onidi (who was also present at the 3 October 2018 Europol Management Board meeting) and a third, non-identified person, visited Washington DC, for meetings with a range of US government bodies, and with Palantir. “The main topics included the security risks as well as the opportunities associated with new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G, information exchange including battlefield information and PNR, radicalisation and terrorist content online, and the Visa Waiver Programme”. Palantir’s Director of Engineering Aki Jaid gave a presentation on the company. Palantir representatives demonstrated the products Gotham and Foundry.
Ursula Von Der Leyen became President of the European Commission because of a clandestine backroom deal to give Guy Verhofstadt a job in exchange for Lib Dem support, a Brexiteer has claimed. The astonishing revelation was made by Brexit Party MEP Henrick Overgaard-Nielsen who had overheard the “rumour” circulating along the corridors of Strasbourg. He explained that the controversial prospective leader of the EU managed to garner the vote of the former Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party if its president, Guy Verhofstadt, were given a new top role in EU affairs. Mr Overgaard-Nielsen told the Brexit Party’s web series Brexbox: “I think the most interesting thing is there’s a rumour, actually, that the way she [Ursula von der Leyen] got the Lib Dems and their group to vote in favour was because she promised that she would get a job for Guy Verhofstadt”
Verhofstadt’s dream of a federal European superstate: “A federal EU is the only option. The EU should have its own president, foreign minister, army and prosecutor” – Verhofstadt on Lybia: “The weak position of the EU makes me sick” – Verhofstadt on Syria: “The time for peace talks is over, we need action now. If the UN doesn’t react, then NATO should.” In the 2009 European Parliament election, he was elected a member of the European Parliament for the term 2009–2014. He also has been put forward as the possible candidate for replacing José Manuel Barroso as the president of the European Commission by a coalition of greens, socialists and liberals. On July 1, 2009 he was elected President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament. Verhofstadt is also a member of the Club de Madrid, an organization of more than 80 former statesmen. The group works to promote ‘democratic governance and leadership worldwide’. Since 2012 is Verhofstadt a Board Member of the Brussels-based, Brussels-quoted Sofina holding (petroleum gas and oil platforms). He can look forward to a fee which is in line with that of the other directors, who last year received an amount between 42.000 134.000 euros. The Belgian industrialist Viscount Etienne Davignon is Honorary Director of Sofina. Current directorships and offices held by Davignon: Chairman of Compagnie Maritime Belge, Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, Recticel, Sibeka, SN Airholding and Palais des Beaux-Arts (Belgium), Vice-Chairman of SUEZ-TRACTEBEL (Belgium), Director of Accor (France), Cumerio, Real Software, SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium), and Gilead (United States).He is Chairman of the Bilderberg Group and of CSR Europe.According to the Suez website, Davignon holds 11,111 Suez shares, which are currently worth more than 350,000 euro.
When considered in light of Palantir’s history of backroom dealings, the EU’s lack of transparency over its relationship with Palantir is far more worrisome. Indeed, when the Danish government enlisted Palantir technology as part of its counter-terrorism measures, Danish law had to be amended to allow for the collection of personal data to “prevent” future crimes – and feed Palantir’s software. Meanwhile in Germany the CDU awarded a non-competitive tender to Palantir for a contract the government paid a mere 0.01 Euros for. It is clear there is good reason for EU citizens to have greater insights into the EU’s dealings with Palantir. The lack of forthcoming information limits the ability of citizens to know what was discussed and what companies like Palantir want from EU policy-making.
Palantir’s hand in everything from predictive policing, deportation of migrants, to the monitoring of terrorists has demonstrated its lack of regard for basic principles of human rights and privacy. Even if Palantir’s conversations with the EU were benign, the inability of EU citizens to review and debate the EU’s dealings with a highly controversial actor like Palantir makes a mockery of the EU’s commitment to transparency and only further reinforces the company’s shadowy reputation.
France wants to develop a domestic alternative to U.S. data analytics company Palantir to help it prevent terrorist attacks but will meanwhile renew its contract with the firm, a senior French intelligence official said. Palo-Alto based Palantir, which specializes in crunching and analysing large quantities of data, was hired by French intelligence services in the wake of the November 2015 Islamist militant attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
Since 2016, the European Police Agency has been using the Gotham software to analyse big data. Europol has signed a contract for 7.5 million euros with the company Capgemini, just over half of the money has already been spent. Palantir promoted the software at the European Police Congress in Berlin. The police agency Europol in The Hague has been running the Gotham software of the US company Palantir for several years. This is what the European Commission writes in its answer to a parliamentary question. The application was tested in 2016 within the framework of the Fraternité task force, which Europol set up after the attacks in France at that time. Palantir is criticized for his close cooperation with the military and secret services in the USA. Europol uses Gotham for terrorism cases. To this end, the agency has set up three Analysis Files for Islamist and non-Islamist terrorism and for foreign fighters. These files contain extensive dossiers of suspects, but also of contact persons, travel agencies and other businesses. The files belong to the Anti-Terrorism Centre (ECTC) at Europol in The Hague. Gotham“ is probably also installed there. Europol is competent for serious crime and terrorism affecting two or more EU Member States. Findings from the analysis with the Palantir software are used by the competent authorities of the countries concerned. According to the Commission, however, they can also be passed on to third countries. Europol has concluded operational agreements with several countries, including the USA. In the area of „foreign fighters“ Europol works closely with US authorities. Data is obtained, among others, from the military, which collects them in „battlefields“. This includes fingerprints or DNA data as well as evaluated data carriers or mobile phones. Because military data is subject to a different level of secrecy, the exchange with Europol is not direct, but via the FBI. Police forces in Germany also use Gotham. First the Hessian Ministry of the Interior obtained the software in 2017 in a dubious procedure that led to a parliamentarian inquiry, where it is called hessenDATA. Following its use in the fight against terrorism and organized crime, it is also used to prosecute crimes against the elderly. The version of Gotham adapted for Hessen is called “Hessendata” and is a program of the Palantir company from Palo Alto. This means that one of the most controversial companies in Silicon Valley has entered the German police force. Hessendata goes one step further and integrates data from social media. As “Facebook Business Records” the police receive all information from suspects’ Facebook profiles. Inspector Otto scrolls through chats, likes and logins with the IP address of someone who is being monitored, everything is machine-readable: messages in Arabic, each with the translation of the police interpreter. It’s about building bombs, the chats are real, after their evaluation, investigators arrested a 17-year-old in February. He is said to have planned an attack. The police present this as a success of the new software. Facebook’s data set is so extensive that Otto says: “That would have filled 14 meters of shelves“
In 2008, Facebook sues Germany’s StudiVZ due to its “…blatant, unabashed and wholesale theft of Facebook’s user interface and Web page designs.” But gives a free pass to VK.com, the Russian Facebook clone owned by Russian Internet giant, Digital Sky Technologies (DST). In May 2009, DST invests $200 million in Facebook a 2% of the company shares. In June 2009, DST buys back up to $100 million of Facebook employee shares. DST is co-owned by Alisher Usmanov, a Russian billionaire with a net worth of roughly $7.2 billion. He is one of the top ten steelmakers of Russia. He is chairman of Gasprominvestholdings, the investment holding subsidiary of Russia’s state owned company Gazprom. He is the owner of Russia’s third biggest mobile telephone operator called Megafon. Usmanov has longstanding relations with members of Russia’s intelligence community. Goldman Sachs and DST have a tight alliance. DST key executives were in Goldman Sachs before they transferred into DST. In January 2011, Goldman invests $450 million and DST invests $50 million, putting Facebook’s valuation at $50 billion.
What these relations tell us is that Goldman Sachs and various social media shareholders collaborate in data management projects regardless of nationality. They collect private data through social media and other means and they then analyse these big data to connect relations. This is beyond mass surveillance by big bankers and corporations in partnership with government officials including intelligence.
These bodies are known to include Europol, which has used Palantir’s Gotham software to conduct operations analysis in an anti-terrorism taskforce, as well as the French intelligence services, the Danish national police, state police in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and, possibly, Dutch police. Europol has the power to intervene in the fight against crime and terrorism if at least two Member States are affected. Findings of the data analysis may only be made available to a limited number of competent authorities of the countries concerned. However, the findings may also be made available to the authorities of third countries with which Europol has operational links. The US is such a country.
Palantir’s software was described as an “analyst workspace [for] pulling together disparate information and displaying it in novel ways,” and was used closely in conjunction with other intelligence software tools, like the NSA’s notorious XKEYSCORE search system. According to an article, The Intercept revealed that Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in fact co-created with American spies. Palantir has never masked its ambitions, in particular the desire to sell its services to the U.S. government — the CIA itself was an early investor in the startup through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s venture capital branch. Palantir has helped expand and accelerate the NSA’s global spy network, which is jointly administered with allied foreign agencies around the world. Palantir sold its services to make one of the most powerful surveillance systems ever devised even more powerful, bringing clarity and slick visuals to an ocean of surveillance data.
Some documents show that at least three members of the “Five Eyes” spy alliance between the United States, the U.K, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada were employing Palantir to help gather and process data from around the world. Under the Five Eyes arrangement, member countries collect and pool enormous streams of data and metadata collected through tools like XKEYSCORE, amounting to tens of billions of records. The alliance is constantly devising (or attempting) new, experimental methods of prying data out of closed and private sources, including by hacking into computers and networks in non-Five Eyes countries and infecting them with malware.
The cooperation of Palantir company with the European Union for many years cannot be denied with all this information. When we look at the internal structure of the Palantir company, we can easily understand that the aim is not only to prevent terrorism or to provide a pure data collection service. Palantir’s stock has seen a major turnaround, jumping 70 percent in less than two weeks, after several powerful investors, including George Soros, disclosed stakes in the company. In a statement, Soros’ family office, Soros Fund Management (SFM), confirmed that it owns about 1 percent of Palantir, worth $300 million at the company’s current market value.
Peter Andreas Thiel and Alex Karp are also a member of the steering committee of Bilderberg.
In addition, we see that some former EU officials go to Bilderberg meetings:
- Frits Bolkestein (1996, 2003), former European Commissioner
- Benoît Coeuré (2016), Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
- Kristalina Georgieva (2016), Vice President, European Commission
- Karel De Gucht (2015), former EU Trade Commissioner.
- Neelie Kroes (2011), EU Commissioner
- Pascal Lamy (2003, 2010), former European Commissioner for Trade, Director-General of the World Trade Organization 2005–2013
- Peter Mandelson (1999), (2009), former European Commissioner for Trade 2004–2008
- Pedro Solbes (2010), former European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, former Second Vice President of Spain, former Minister of Economy and Finance
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