At 7:30 a.m. this morning, the bespectacled, 73-year-old Peter Lippman was in a crowd of activists with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). As he walked around the corner from Cascade Playground to Fairview Market, 400 Fairview Ave. N., Lippman explained he was there for the same reason as everyone else marching with him: To ruin Palantir’s day....
According to a UN report released late last month, there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Palantir has provided Israel with predictive policing technology and AI tech to make automated decisions on the battlefield. And earlier this year, WIRED reported Donald Trump’s administration was paying Palantir $30 million to develop “near real-time” tracking on people self-deporting from the US. Palantir is also helping Trump’s government compile the data on me, you and all Americans from various federal agencies. In May, former Palantir workers shared a letter with NPR that condemned the company’s work with Trump. Palantir worked with Israel long before October 2023, and became an ICE contractor in 2011, during the Obama administration.
Palantir’s Seattle office is not secret, but it’s not common knowledge either. JVP says its action Monday kicks off a campaign to convince the state to cut ties with Palantir. According to JVP’s calculations, of the state’s hundreds of billions of investment dollars, $742,000 is in Palantir.
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