On: Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?

[cubecul]

What do you think Palantir does that would have them scanning FB chat?

[tolkienfanatic → cubecul]

Palantir does tons of government and military work.

[cubecul → tolkienfanatic]

Doesn't answer my question deeply enough.

[pjc50 → cubecul]

Military == antiterrorism == SELECT * FROM chat WHERE text CONTAINS "jihad"

[RodericDay → pjc50]

also "inequality" and "capitalism"

[ryporter → cubecul]

Why was this comment voted down? It challenged an uninformed speculation based on the title of a speculation.

[rev_bird → cubecul]

Big data analytics is their bread and butter – if they had a way to analyze Facebook messages for patterns and predictively useful metrics, I'm sure they would.

[cubecul → rev_bird]

AFAIK not analytics, but an interface that makes exploring data easier for analysts

[Bedon292 → cubecul]

They are mostly about exploring the data yes, but they also do some data mining in the content in order to make connections. They attempt to pull out names and link them together and things along those lines. I think they would be far more interested in mining all of the friendships to do the network analysis than the content of the chats.

[diminoten → cubecul]

They do analytics as well.