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How does Palantir work, what is so special about what they do that some other big tech company wasnt already doing that or what is their moat? (lemmy.world)

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The "not having your data" part is pretty interesting. From what I've read, they build software that links data from various sources, and specifically promises not to send it back to HQ.

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I think what they do is host an instance/shard of their tools for each customer, probably on a public cloud provider like AWS. Palantir manage the software, the customer provides the data.

Palantir’s engineers absolutely could have access to any data in their tools if they wanted it enough (they write the software, after all), but I would assume that there are various safeguards in place - the CIA absolutely wouldn’t want Palantir staff accessing their data, but on the flipside the CIA might be very keen for Palantir staff to help them access data owned by another country’s intelligence agencies…