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Don’t Just Trust Us

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Team was in Brussels, Belgium, in January for the Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection conference, a three-day meeting of academics, NGOs, government officials, and corporations concerned about legal and technological issues related to the protection of privacy. In addition to a number of interesting panel discussions, the conference was an [...]

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Collaborating with Google Ideas and Global Impact Award winners to Fight Human Trafficking

It is estimated that there are 21 million people enslaved worldwide.[1] Human trafficking is the third largest global illicit trade and is growing at a higher rate than weapons and narcotics. Men, women, and children are victims of trafficking internationally as well as within the United States. Polaris Project, Liberty Asia, and La Strada International are recipients of [...]

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Hard Data for Hard Journalism

Like the other domains in which our software is deployed, investigative journalism relies on the insight and judgment of human experts. Armed with the right technology and enough data, these experts can achieve extraordinary outcomes. On the Philanthropy Engineering team, we’ve been fortunate to collaborate with passionate, truth-seeking journalists on several inspiring projects, many of which [...]

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Palantir Pharma: mitigating R&D risk through data fusion

With development times of ten years or more and costs of over $1 billion per new medicine, pharmaceutical R&D is an expensive, lengthy, and risky process. Enterprises can minimize the risk associated with drug development programs by better understanding the universe of data relevant to particular diseases, targets, and drug candidates. Unfortunately, achieving this level of [...]

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Palantir hosts Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner #32

Girl Geeks from around the Bay rang in the new year and broke in Palantir’s new event space with Girl Geek Dinner #32, which focused on philanthropy, technology, and the opportunities presented by both for women worldwide. Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, opened the night with her [...]

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Server-Side Quality Engineering: Exploring Software From the Inside Out

When looking for a job after graduation, many computer science or engineering majors assume that software development is their only career path. At least that’s how I felt at first. After all, my curriculum was dominated by courses on one or another aspect of software development. But when considering my career options, I realized I [...]

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Announcing the 2012-2013 Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology! This year, scholarship applicants wrote essays addressing why they were pursuing a technical degree, what can be done to increase the number of women in technical fields, and what ways technology can be used to promote opportunities for women worldwide. The finalists were [...]

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Palantir Cyber: Uncovering malicious behavior at petabyte scale

One of the most difficult challenges for cyber security analysts is navigating through vast quantities of network data, which can approach petabyte scales and is often distributed across many disconnected systems. In this demonstration, we show how an analyst can use the Palantir Cyber solution to detect beaconing, a network behavior suggestive of malware, by [...]

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Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Video Analytics: Part 1

During the past year and a half, Palantir has been developing Palantir Video, a video analytics application that will allow Palantir Gotham users to better integrate video information into the rest of their analyses. The initial Palantir Video functionality will be limited to basic playback capabilities and the ability for a user to tag individuals [...]

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Panel features Palantir Women on Working in Tech

On November 13, Pooja Sankar, CEO of Piazza, an online Q&A platform used by students and teachers, sat down with four women at Palantir to discuss their experiences working in technology. Originally broadcasted live to students in Piazza’s network, the panelists spoke about their roles at Palantir and how they’ve navigated the ups and downs [...]

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