Privacy is one of the central challenges of our time and a pressing topic in today’s discussions on platforms, algorithms and policy making. The APC is a powerful forum for academics and advocates from around the world to move the field of privacy research forward. The conference is an important venue for privacy scholars from many different disciplines. *The presence of Palantir as a sponsor of this conference **legitimizes the company’s practices* and gives it the opportunity to position itself as part of the agenda. [...] *Palantir’s business model* is based on a particular form of surveillance capitalism that targets marginalized communities and *accelerates the use of discriminatory technologies such as predictive policing*
(enfasi mia) Continua su https://fundingmatters.tech/ A me sembra condivisibile, ma nella lista degli sponsor di quest'anno vi sono altre aziende problematiche da questo punto di vista: https://apc2018.com/sponsors/index.html Giacomo