[jimmywanger]

> So no, I don't want web service providers

Thanks for proving the example false equivalence. Palantir is not a service provider to you, it is a data analysis company.

If Google or Facebook performed data mining on data it owned, that'd be one thing. Palantir is providing tools that analyze publicly available information.

> Or a dozen other bad things could happen

Yes, that's life. At any point any bad things can happen that's out of your control.

If somebody in your family posted "I love weed" on a public billboard, you might expect increased police attention.

Extrapolating a dead dog and painkiller arrests (both vanishingly rare events) are hysterical statements not based in fact.

[valuearb]

No knock warrants are not "vanishing rare events" and having nervous cops point weapons at you is not pleasant. And people get arrested for prescription drug abuse all the time, and plocue have the "discretion" to arrest you if you are carrying certain drugs without your prescriptions on you (don't worry if you work in the DAs office, warning only).

So you might not be concerned about getting trapped in the maw of our now enormous law enforcement machine, but plenty of people are given virtually every adult in the US has committed a felony at one point or another because of one crazy law or another. Not only do I not want Google or Facebook using automated algorithms to pit me in the maw, I don't want them sharing that data with Palantir so it can do it either. That gives for Chase Bank, Verizon, etc.