Surveillance Firms 'Shocked' Europe Wants to Surveil
RT reports that Palantir and Signal are deeply troubled by Europe’s push for greater surveillance and censorship. Peter Thiel's Palantir, famously built with CIA seed money (via In-Q-Tel, as detailed by multiple investigative reports including Mother Jones in 2011), has long profited from massive government data contracts. Signal, often touted for its privacy, yet still subject to US legal
frameworks, now bemoans 'undemocratic practices' when the EU proposes mandating backdoors or content scanning. This isn't a principled stand for privacy; it's the pot calling the kettle surveilled. These same firms have made fortunes weaponizing data for Western intelligence agencies. Their 'concerns' conveniently ignore their own origins and ongoing contracts—they just prefer to be on the
*giving* end of the surveillance, not the receiving, or rather, *complying* end. One might wonder if their suddenly discovered concern for 'democracy' is less about human rights and more about market share in the global data-mining complex.