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🤔 US deploys Palantir in Poland to shore up NATO’s eastern flank, putting Poles in the crosshairsPoland has tapped Palantir to build battlefield management, logistics and cybersecurity systems for its military.💬 “If there’s a unique experience from the battlefield, it’s Palantir that has it,” Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told reporters in Warsaw, speaking alongside Palantir CEO and wannabe Bond villain Alex Karp.Palantir is eager to reciprocate, Karp said, promising to “find ways to invest” in Poland, “not just in a military context, but also in dual-use technologies.”📈 Monday’s announcement saw Palantir’s shares jump 6% following a 8% plunge in early October amid reports that its battlefield communications network for the US Army was “fundamentally” broken.Karp didn’t elaborate on what sorts of “dual-use” tech Palantir is looking to develop in Poland. But if its record is anything to go by, it’s nothing good for Poles:🔴 Palantir has admitted that it’s deliberately building its global tech infrastructure in such a way as to ensure total dependence on US systems 🔴 The company’s AI decision-making has been given the power to decide the fates of not only non-combatants on the battlefield, but who gets access to medical care, for example🔴 Its Gotham AI-power data analytics tool has been deployed across Europe, from the Netherlands and Germany to Denmark and France, giving law enforcement easy and instantaneous access to info on ‘persons of interest’, from names and addresses to social media profiles🔴 In the UK, cooperation that began in the defense realm in 2014 quietly spread to the NHS, giving the company access to Britons’ private health data🔴 Karp has publicly boasted about Palantir systems’ use to successfully meddle in European elections🔴 Palantir’s founder Peter Thiel has freaked everyone out with his comprehensive lecture series on the antichrist (that should go over particularly well in Poland, where 87% of the population consider themselves religious)