Ignorance may be bliss. But not for long.

Was talking with some friends the other day about my concerns with the increasing number of surveillance cameras (and other devices) that seem to be springing up all over my city. See here: What are these cameras up to? Anyways, I mentioned the company Palantir, which nobody had heard of. When I explained what they were about, there was much doubt that they would be up to anything that malevolent in Australia…. The company specialises in creating detailed profiles of people by combining large databases about us. They then provide surveillance capability to their customers, including the Israeli Defence Forces and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Amnesty International has reported that, with these programmes, Palantir is facilitating human rights abuse.[…]Companies and government departments, including Coles, RioTinto, Westpac, the Victorian Department of Justice and Department of Defence have chosen to work with Palantir. This is a worrying trend. At present, there is…