I am flabbergasted to know that Palantir along with Sean Parker and Peter Theil are involved. I wonder how much I can trust Facebook now. If Palantir is getting investments/revenues from government, I wonder if Facebook too is getting some.
I wouldn't be amazed that they do business with the national-security complex; I'd be amazed if it wasn't by far their #1 customer.
They are unscrupulous.
Imagine spooks following you all day, each day, and every time after you talked with someone, they walk up to them and ask what the conversation was about. Imagine dozens of spooks per individual, each of them constantly taking notes on paper that does not perish. This is the society we live in, the society that we built while sleepwalking. Even the spooks aren't aware of what they're doing, not really.
Just now?
If you want to know whether Facebook is getting revenue from the government, look at their financial returns. I'm sure you will find that most of their revenue comes from advertising, and they are not bidding on federal government contracts.
These Daily Kos articles play it pretty loose with how they connect the dots together and make it out to be some large conspiracy.
considering the potential of internet advertizing schemas to be used as orders of magnitude larger, easy transcending national borders, v2.0 of "pizza parlor" for things like money laundering, untraceable payments, etc...
Given that programs like PRISM are done in secret, perhaps we shouldn't necessarily assume Facebook's public financial returns are sharing the whole story. Ie- money may be changing hands behind closed doors.
This, aside from the blatant invasion of privacy, should be our biggest concern about the recent NSA revaluations. As participants in a free-market economy it's important we know who is cheating. Ie- those who subvert the free-market via secret gov/intel/military deals.