<story><title>Germany raises red flags about Palantir’s big data dragnet</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-germany-gotham-dragnet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowpid</author><text>linked letter to share holders by Palantine (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.palantir.com&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;letters&amp;#x2F;letter-to-shareholders&amp;#x2F;november-7-2022&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.palantir.com&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;letters&amp;#x2F;letter-to-sharehol...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;:
&amp;quot;It has been our experience, however, that some countries, particularly in continental Europe, including Germany, have fallen behind the United States in their willingness and ability to implement enterprise software systems that challenge existing habits and modes of operation.
There have been repeated attempts to build replicas of Silicon Valley in continental Europe, in Germany and elsewhere, but the results have been decidedly mixed.
We have found that large institutions in the United States have been far more willing to investigate the most significant sources of systemic dysfunction within their organizations, which in the current moment often relate to the ability or rather inability of an institution to metabolize its own data.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Honestly I feel the opposite in this high level description of cultural difference but it is the only rationalisation of the CEO who is very likely pissed off by data protection.&lt;p&gt;Oh boy, at least they are honest in their arrogance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t8sr</author><text>Having experienced American bureaucracy, I find the claim that US institutions have been &amp;quot;willing to investigate systemic dysfunction&amp;quot; completely hilarious.&lt;p&gt;I think what Palantir means is that American organizations have been faster to adopt big data and centralize decision-making. Having worked for multiple large US businesses, I am not convinced that this leads to &amp;quot;less dysfunction&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Having a few technocrats with some data make all the decisions centrally is just a reinvention of Planned Economy. It didn&amp;#x27;t work in the USSR and it doesn&amp;#x27;t work now.</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany raises red flags about Palantir’s big data dragnet</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-germany-gotham-dragnet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowpid</author><text>linked letter to share holders by Palantine (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.palantir.com&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;letters&amp;#x2F;letter-to-shareholders&amp;#x2F;november-7-2022&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.palantir.com&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;letters&amp;#x2F;letter-to-sharehol...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;:
&amp;quot;It has been our experience, however, that some countries, particularly in continental Europe, including Germany, have fallen behind the United States in their willingness and ability to implement enterprise software systems that challenge existing habits and modes of operation.
There have been repeated attempts to build replicas of Silicon Valley in continental Europe, in Germany and elsewhere, but the results have been decidedly mixed.
We have found that large institutions in the United States have been far more willing to investigate the most significant sources of systemic dysfunction within their organizations, which in the current moment often relate to the ability or rather inability of an institution to metabolize its own data.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Honestly I feel the opposite in this high level description of cultural difference but it is the only rationalisation of the CEO who is very likely pissed off by data protection.&lt;p&gt;Oh boy, at least they are honest in their arrogance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Well, Palantir is a glorified spreadsheet provider whose only selling point is access to a ton of data its clients could not have otherwise. Their sales people are pretty good so, kind of the equivalent of the stereotypical IBM or SAP sales rep.</text></comment>