[jjd33]

Peter Thiel (Palantir) is one of their main investors. that should raise all alarm bellas for a product that advertises itself with "privacy"

[BrendanEich]

Peter Thiel is not personally an investor in Brave. The firm he's a partner in (Founders Fund) has a small seed series investment, which was led by Cyan Banister. Some first floor engineers at Brave have more equity than that small investment constitutes. Repeating falsehoods once you know they are false is lying, so please don't.

[webmaven]

> Some first floor engineers at Brave have more equity than that small investment constitutes.

Is "first floor engineers" an SV-ism (or Brave-ism) that indicates something like "early employees"?

[erichocean]

Palantir exists to improve privacy of citizen data within the government. Without it, government workers have massive, untraceable and unaccountable access to private data. (See Snowden for more info.)

I don't like that there's even a need for Palantir, but given the need, I'm glad it exists and I'm glad someone like Thiel is behind it.

[TameAntelope]

I very, very much do not buy this at all.

I don't honestly care all that much about Palantir specifically (pros and cons, though lots of cons), but one thing they do not do by simply existing is help citizens protect their data. They do a lot of things, but not that.

That's just marketing/PR nonsense.

[lasfter]

Instead we give that access to Palantir workers? How is that any better?

[webmaven]

> Palantir exists to improve privacy of citizen data within the government.

Huh. So the argument to overcome objections to a