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  • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

    The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

    #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

    A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

    What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

    Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

    And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

    Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

    Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

    These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

    In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

    But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

    After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

    We rejected this in its entirety.

    In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

    And now we see each other in court.

    But why all this?

    Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

    And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

    All of this is making Palantir nervous.

    We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

    We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

    In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

    World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

    The truth.

    All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

    We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

    ghostonthehalfshell@masto.aiG This user is from outside of this forum
    ghostonthehalfshell@masto.aiG This user is from outside of this forum
    ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai
    wrote sidst redigeret af
    #14

    @adfichter

    This doesn’t surprise me. Thiel destroyed gawker magazine. they reported about his boyfriend or that Peter was is gay. he destroyed the magazine over it by bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s own lawsuit over their reporting on the wrestler

    The boyfriend died very strange death by the way I don’t know if it was before after the article.

    But there has been a lot of press about Peter and so the decision to go after you sounds like you found either something new that hit a nerve or got “lucky”

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    • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

      The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

      #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

      A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

      What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

      Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

      And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

      Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

      Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

      These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

      In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

      But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

      After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

      We rejected this in its entirety.

      In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

      And now we see each other in court.

      But why all this?

      Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

      And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

      All of this is making Palantir nervous.

      We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

      We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

      In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

      World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

      The truth.

      All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

      We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

      alxndr@tech.lgbtA This user is from outside of this forum
      alxndr@tech.lgbtA This user is from outside of this forum
      alxndr@tech.lgbt
      wrote sidst redigeret af
      #15

      @adfichter Alex Karp is absolutely unhinged, and Palantir's business should be illegal.

      Thank you for your work, and all the best in court! ❤️ ✊

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      • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

        The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

        #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

        A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

        What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

        Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

        And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

        Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

        Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

        These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

        In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

        But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

        After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

        We rejected this in its entirety.

        In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

        And now we see each other in court.

        But why all this?

        Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

        And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

        All of this is making Palantir nervous.

        We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

        We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

        In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

        World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

        The truth.

        All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

        We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

        mast0d0nphan@beige.partyM This user is from outside of this forum
        mast0d0nphan@beige.partyM This user is from outside of this forum
        mast0d0nphan@beige.party
        wrote sidst redigeret af
        #16

        @adfichter BEAT. 👏 THEIR. 👏 ASSES! 👏

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        • ghostonthehalfshell@masto.aiG ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai

          @adfichter

          This doesn’t surprise me. Thiel destroyed gawker magazine. they reported about his boyfriend or that Peter was is gay. he destroyed the magazine over it by bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s own lawsuit over their reporting on the wrestler

          The boyfriend died very strange death by the way I don’t know if it was before after the article.

          But there has been a lot of press about Peter and so the decision to go after you sounds like you found either something new that hit a nerve or got “lucky”

          ghostonthehalfshell@masto.aiG This user is from outside of this forum
          ghostonthehalfshell@masto.aiG This user is from outside of this forum
          ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai
          wrote sidst redigeret af
          #17

          @adfichter

          The way Peter contributed to destroying gawker magazine is a demonstration of how much he kept himself out of the limelight.

          Maybe that’s changed since because he’s become much more public but from his appearances it’s clear there’s a good reason why he stayed out of public view

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          • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

            The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

            #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

            A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

            What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

            Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

            And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

            Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

            Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

            These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

            In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

            But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

            After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

            We rejected this in its entirety.

            In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

            And now we see each other in court.

            But why all this?

            Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

            And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

            All of this is making Palantir nervous.

            We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

            We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

            In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

            World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

            The truth.

            All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

            We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

            cristinah@mastodon.greenC This user is from outside of this forum
            cristinah@mastodon.greenC This user is from outside of this forum
            cristinah@mastodon.green
            wrote sidst redigeret af
            #18

            @adfichter #pressfreedom #palantir

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            • dzu@hostsharing.coopD dzu@hostsharing.coop

              @OliverCzulo @adfichter That is easy to answer: https://shop.republik.ch/

              stefanct@chaos.socialS This user is from outside of this forum
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              stefanct@chaos.social
              wrote sidst redigeret af
              #19

              @dzu @OliverCzulo @adfichter i'd prefer a simple iban instead of being required to register an account and who knows what else to be able to give away my money for a good cause though.

              oliverczulo@spd.socialO mapto@qoto.orgM srtcd424@mas.toS 3 Replies Last reply
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              • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                We rejected this in its entirety.

                In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                And now we see each other in court.

                But why all this?

                Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                The truth.

                All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

                fluttersh@pony.socialF This user is from outside of this forum
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                fluttersh@pony.social
                wrote sidst redigeret af
                #20

                @adfichter what article?

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                • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                  The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                  #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                  A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                  What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                  Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                  And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                  Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                  Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                  These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                  In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                  But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                  After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                  We rejected this in its entirety.

                  In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                  And now we see each other in court.

                  But why all this?

                  Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                  And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                  All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                  We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                  We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                  In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                  World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                  The truth.

                  All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                  We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

                  kristopher_klein@nrw.socialK This user is from outside of this forum
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                  kristopher_klein@nrw.social
                  wrote sidst redigeret af
                  #21

                  @adfichter Stay strong! ✊

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                  • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                    The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                    #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                    A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                    What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                    Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                    And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                    Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                    Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                    These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                    In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                    But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                    After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                    We rejected this in its entirety.

                    In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                    And now we see each other in court.

                    But why all this?

                    Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                    And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                    All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                    We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                    We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                    In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                    World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                    The truth.

                    All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                    We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                    #22

                    @adfichter

                    I sense a very strong Streisand effect here 🤔

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                    • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                      The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                      #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                      A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                      What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                      Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                      And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                      Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                      Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                      These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                      In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                      But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                      After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                      We rejected this in its entirety.

                      In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                      And now we see each other in court.

                      But why all this?

                      Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                      And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                      All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                      We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                      We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                      In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                      World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                      The truth.

                      All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                      We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                      #23

                      @adfichter would be a shame if the Streisand effect would work its magic here...

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                      • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                        The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                        #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                        A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                        What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                        Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                        And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                        Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                        Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                        These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                        In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                        But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                        After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                        We rejected this in its entirety.

                        In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                        And now we see each other in court.

                        But why all this?

                        Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                        And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                        All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                        We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                        We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                        In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                        World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                        The truth.

                        All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                        We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                        #24

                        @adfichter Stay strong!

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                        • stefanct@chaos.socialS stefanct@chaos.social

                          @dzu @OliverCzulo @adfichter i'd prefer a simple iban instead of being required to register an account and who knows what else to be able to give away my money for a good cause though.

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                          #25

                          @stefanct @dzu @adfichter I was hoping for something like a one-time support option, as the Guardian provides, though I completely understand that this may not be an optimal solution from a journalism point of view

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                          • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                            The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                            #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                            A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                            What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                            Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                            And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                            Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                            Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                            These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                            In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                            But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                            After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                            We rejected this in its entirety.

                            In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                            And now we see each other in court.

                            But why all this?

                            Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                            And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                            All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                            We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                            We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                            In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                            World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                            The truth.

                            All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                            We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                            honkhase@chaos.social
                            wrote sidst redigeret af
                            #26

                            @adfichter Thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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                            • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                              The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                              #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                              A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                              What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                              Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                              And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                              Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                              Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                              These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                              In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                              But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                              After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                              We rejected this in its entirety.

                              In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                              And now we see each other in court.

                              But why all this?

                              Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                              And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                              All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                              We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                              We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                              In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                              World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                              The truth.

                              All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                              We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                              #27

                              @adfichter this might be the CCC video: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-blackbox-palantir, but I've not watched it yet.

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                              • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                                The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                                #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                                A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                                What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                                Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                                And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                                Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                                Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                                These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                                In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                                But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                                After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                                We rejected this in its entirety.

                                In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                                And now we see each other in court.

                                But why all this?

                                Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                                And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                                All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                                We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                                We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                                In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                                World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                                The truth.

                                All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                                We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                                #28

                                @adfichter I can hear a SLAPP.

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                                • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                                  The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                                  #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                                  A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                                  What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                                  Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                                  And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                                  Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                                  Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                                  These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                                  In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                                  But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                                  After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                                  We rejected this in its entirety.

                                  In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                                  And now we see each other in court.

                                  But why all this?

                                  Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                                  And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                                  All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                                  We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                                  We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                                  In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                                  World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                                  The truth.

                                  All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                                  We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                                  #29

                                  @adfichter May I add: Fuck Palantir

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                                  • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                                    The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                                    #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                                    A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                                    What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                                    Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                                    And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                                    Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                                    Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                                    These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                                    In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                                    But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                                    After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                                    We rejected this in its entirety.

                                    In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                                    And now we see each other in court.

                                    But why all this?

                                    Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                                    And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                                    All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                                    We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                                    We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                                    In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                                    World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                                    The truth.

                                    All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                                    We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                                    wrote sidst redigeret af
                                    #30

                                    @adfichter Keep up the good work!

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                                    • adfichter@infosec.exchangeA adfichter@infosec.exchange

                                      The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

                                      #Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

                                      A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

                                      What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

                                      Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

                                      And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

                                      Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

                                      Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

                                      These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

                                      In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

                                      But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

                                      After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

                                      We rejected this in its entirety.

                                      In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

                                      And now we see each other in court.

                                      But why all this?

                                      Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

                                      And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

                                      All of this is making Palantir nervous.

                                      We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

                                      We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

                                      In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

                                      World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

                                      The truth.

                                      All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

                                      We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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                                      @adfichter
                                      Stay strong!
                                      Only the good get sued
                                      You have a great project and maybe it'll wake some more people up

                                      They just have machines and money - we are more people and have reasons to fight

                                      #resistance #resist #republik #tech #antifascism

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                                      • nukleos@mendeddrum.orgN nukleos@mendeddrum.org

                                        @adfichter Cory Doctorow just quoted Thiel in https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/09/sloppy-steve/, while writing about “disaster capitalism”…

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                                        wdeborger@toot.community
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                                        @nukleos @adfichter

                                        This article explains a lot, but it is bleak beyond despair.

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                                        • stefanct@chaos.socialS stefanct@chaos.social

                                          @dzu @OliverCzulo @adfichter i'd prefer a simple iban instead of being required to register an account and who knows what else to be able to give away my money for a good cause though.

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                                          @stefanct @dzu @OliverCzulo @adfichter and don't forget to follow @republik.ch

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