Things are taking a darker turn... we sleep walked into enabling private firms to hold and use every aspect of our live's data for commercial purposes to manipulate and shape our consumption patterns.
But as someone who has lectured on surveillance for many years, this news chills me to the bone.
Most of 2020 seemed down to governmental incompetence and Johnson the centre piece of that incompentencer. This contract, however, signals a long term strategy to take complete control of our data to darker ends. What better way to collect border control data on a population living on an island?
If you thought the UK had a hostile environment to immigrants, we're going to move to a new scale on that plus more for UK citizens. Particularly those participating in legitimate protest against the government.
This is a very long term strategy and I would bet any amount of money that this contract leads back to Cummings and his vision of a disrupted UK along with a remade UK English military using AI, big data, drones, and algorithms. No wonder Cumming's has been focused on the military. All becoming clearer now.
The government has awarded oversight of the UK’s post-Brexit border and customs data to Palantir, an American tech firm. Palantir, whose co-founder Peter Thiel has been a vocal supporter of Trump, was formally awarded a contract last week to manage the data analytics and architecture of the UK’s new “border flow tool”, which will collate data on the transit of goods and customs.
This firm makes Google, Amazon, and FB look like cuddly toys.