I am curious if any of the communication show discussion about the ethical repercussions of this kind of work? I would like to believe a company like Palantir (in those 1000 emails) at least mention some kind of concern on the part of their engineers. Any thoughts?
If you download the email dump and search through the attachments (requires pre-processing or loading into a mail client), you'll see that Palantir does market their software as helping agencies better respect civil liberties while getting results. Who knows what they say in person or whether this is true.