That is not their core business. Their core business is data analysis. If I remember from some tech book, they were spun out from the fraud department in PayPal detecting fraudulent transactions and then selling services to FBI.

I became familiar with them through their disease prevention activities trying to evaluate bug transmissions and food borne diseases.

Certainly, you can analyze innocent people, but it’s not like they are a face recognition camera company or something.

I’m not employed by Palantir and not a fan or anything, but am surprised at how mischaracterized they seem to be.