Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Be Humble: Will Humble On Public Health is Arizona - A Global Hot Spot For COVID-19 Transmissions

Being "politically-correct" here is the State of Arizona is speaking up against the Status Quo, month-after-month in the second year of The Pandemic Crisis.
Ominous sign? Of the 14 states with rising new coronavirus cases, Arizona has experts especially worried - ABC News
There's one person - a recognized and respected Public Health expert - who never shirks away from taking his place on the public record in the span of months from when Arizona had 1,500 cases and it only got worse. . .
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Coronavirus is 'spreading like wildfire' in Arizona, state representative says

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By Joseph Guzman | June 15, 2020
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Arizona has emerged as a new national hot spot for the coronavirus, recording more than 4,400 new cases from Friday through Sunday. 

“It’s spreading like wildfire,” Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) said on Twitter Sunday, noting Arizona’s infection rate is now more than three times higher than New York state. 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORONAVIRUS RIGHT NOW

Arizona’s infection rate reached 60.5 per 100,000 people, compared with New York’s 12.5 per 100,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The Grand Canyon state has reported 36,844 cases, with 1,014 newly reported cases on June 15. The current death toll sits at 1,194. 

 

 

 

 

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Monday, February 01, 2021

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Back to The Future > Palantir

It's been a while since posting anything about Palantir, so let's catch-up and backtrack to July 2020 in this report from https://www.the-blockchain.com/

US Health Department COVID-19 Tracking System To Use CIA-Backed Palantir Technologies

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By Richard Kastelein   

"In what was regarded as a highly political move, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently took over control of COVID-19 reporting by hospitals from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) and government contractor and big data analytics giant Palantir was awarded the bulk of the project’s blockchain needs without competitive bidding, according to an investigative report at Ledger Insights.

The US Health Department FAQ leaves few clues about what blockchain protocol is being deployed and how Palantir is integrating its controversial technology.  According to reports online, Palantir’s data analysis clients as of 2013 included at least twelve groups within the U.S. government, including the CIA, DHS, NSA, and the FBI.

Palantir has gleaned more than $3 billion in VC funding from investors including In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, Thiel’s Founders Fund, Fidelity and Tiger Global Management. . .

In 2018, Morgan Stanley valued Palantir at $6 billion. Since the coronavirus pandemic the value has shot to some $20 billion and the company is planning an IPO according to the New York Times. Founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Nathan Gettings, Stephen Cohen and Alex Karp, who is its chief executive, the company began working with governments, law enforcement and the defence industry to analyze and process their data but has expanded into other areas.

About the author: Richard Kastelein https://www.the-blockchain.com

In his 20s, he sailed around the world on small yachts and wrote a series of travel articles called, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Seas' travelling by hitching rides on yachts (1989) in major travel and yachting publications. He currently lives in Groningen, the Netherlands where he has set down his anchor to raise a family and write. Founder and publisher of industry publication Blockchain News (EST 2015) and director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) – Vancouver native Richard Kastelein is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He has written over 2500 articles on Blockchain technology and startups at Blockchain News and has also published in Harvard Business Review, Venturebeat, Wired, The Guardian and a number of other publications. Kastelein has an Honorary Ph.D. and is Chair Professor of Blockchain at China's first blockchain University in Nanchang at the Jiangxi Ahead Institute software and Technology. He has over a half a decade experience judging and rewarding some 1000+ innovation projects as an EU expert for the European Commission's SME Instrument programme as a startup assessor and as a startup judge for the UK government's Innovate UK division. Kastelein has spoken (keynotes & panels) on Blockchain technology at over 50 events in 30+ cities
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How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing

A Backchannel investigation reveals the difficult issues police and communities face when they adopt Palantir’s data-scooping software.

Mark Harris
Wired
Illustration by Val Mina
How Palantir, Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company, Pushed Its Way Into Policing | WIRED
". . .The scale of Palantir’s implementation, the type, quantity and persistence of the data it processes, and the unprecedented access that many thousands of people have to that data all raise significant concerns about privacy, equity, racial justice, and civil rights. But until now, we haven’t known very much about how the system works, who is using it, and what their problems are. And neither Palantir nor many of the police departments that use it are willing to talk about it. . .
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Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley's Most Secretive Unicorn

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Sep 28, 2020 — Techie Software Soldier Spy. Palantir, Big Data's scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors?
Techie Software Soldier Spy

Palantir, Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors?

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Back in 2003, John Poindexter got a call from Richard Perle, an old friend from their days serving together in the Reagan administration. Perle, one of the architects of the Iraq War, which started that year, wanted to introduce Poindexter to a couple of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were starting a software company. The firm, Palantir Technologies, was hoping to pull together data collected by a wide range of spy agencies — everything from human intelligence and cell-phone calls to travel records and financial transactions — to help identify and stop terrorists planning attacks on the United States.

Poindexter, a retired rear admiral who had been forced to resign as Reagan’s national-security adviser over his role in the Iran-Contra scandal, wasn’t exactly the kind of starry-eyed idealist who usually appeals to Silicon Valley visionaries. Returning to the Pentagon after the 9/11 attacks, he had begun researching ways to develop a data-mining program that was as spooky as its name: Total Information Awareness. His work — dubbed a “super-snoop’s dream” by conservative columnist William Safire — was a precursor to the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance programs that were exposed a decade later by Edward Snowden.

Yet Poindexter was precisely the person Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, the co-founders of Palantir, wanted to meet. Their new company was similar in ambition to what Poindexter had tried to create at the Pentagon, and they wanted to pick the brain of the man now widely viewed as the godfather of modern surveillance

 
 
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