ahhh, Project Alamo and Project Big Daddy. Palantir came up in Zuckerberg's interrogatory at the Senate Judiciary & Commrce Committees Joint Hearing, "Facebook Data Use", 10 April, 2018. I listened to all four hours last weekend. Fun stuff. Something like pity for Zuck crawled into my heart. Then I sprayed it with Round Up®

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CANTWELL: Do you know who Palantir is?
ZUCKERBERG: I do.
CANTWELL: Some people have refered to them as Stanford Analytica. Do you agree?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I have not heard that.
CANTWELL: Okay. Do you think Palantir taught Cambridge Analytica, as press reports are saying, how to do these tactics?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I don't know.
CANTWELL: Do you think Palantir has ever scraped data from Facebook? [NYT]
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I'm not aware of that.
CANTWELL: M'kay. Do you think that during the 2016 campaign that as Cambridge Analytica was providing support to the Trump campaign under Project Alamo were there any Facebook people involved with that, sharing of technique and information? [NYT][BLOOMBERG],[GUARDIAN]
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, we provided support to the Trump campaign similar to what we provide to any advertiser or campaign who asks for it.
CANTWELL: So that was a yes. Is that a yes?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, would you repeat the specific question? I just want to make sure I get specifically what you're asking.
CANTWELL: During the 2016 campaign Cambridge Analytica worked with the Trump campaign to refine tactics, and were Facebook employees involved in that?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I don't know that our employees were involved with Cambridge Analytica although I know that we did help out with the Trump campaign over all in sales support in the same way that we do with other campaigns.
CANTWELL: So they may have been involved and all working together during that time period. Maybe that's something your investigation will find out?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I can certainly have my team get back to you on any specifics there that I don't know sitting here today.
CANTWELL: Have you heard of total information awareness? Do you know what I'm talking about?
ZUCKERBERG: No, I do not.
CANTWELL: Okay. Total information awareness was 2003, John Ashcroft and others were trying to do similar things to what I think is behind all this geopolitical forces trying to get data and information to influence a process. [ASC], [LRON], [FAS], [CRS, [BLOOMBERG].

So when I look at Palantir and what they're doing, and I look at WhatsApp which is another [Facebook] acquisition, and I look at where you are to the 2011 consent decree and where you are today, I'm thinking, Is this guy out-foxing the foxes? Or, Is he going along with what is a major trend in an information age to try to harvest information for political forces? And so my question to you is, Do you see that those applications, those companies Palantir and even WhatsApp are going to fall into the same situation that you've just fallen into over the last several years?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I'm not, I'm not sure specifically. Over all, I do think that these issues around information access are challenging. To the specifics of those apps, I'm not really that familiar with what Palantir does. um, WhatsApp collects very little information, and I think is less likely to have the kind of issues because of the way the services is architected [SIC]. But certainly I think these are broad issues across tech industry.
CANTWELL: Well, I guess, given the track record where Facebook is and why you're here today, I guess, people would say, they didn't act boldly enough and the fact that, um, people like John Bolton basically was an investor in a New York Times article earlier, I guess, it was actually last month, that the Bolton pack was upset about how America was becoming limp-wristed and spineless and had wanted research and messaging in national security issues. [CT. FEDERAL CLAIMS].

So the fact that, you know, there are a lot of people who are interested in this larger effort and what I think my constituents want to know is, Was this discussed at your board meetings? And, What are the applications and interests that are being discussed without putting real teeth into this? We don't want to come back to this situation again. I believe, you have all the talent. My question is whether you have all the will to help us solve this problem.
ZUCKERBERG: Yes, Senator. So data privacy and foreign interference in elections are certainly topics we've discussed at the board meetings. These are some of the biggest issues that the company has faced, and we feel a huge responsibility to get these right.
CANTWELL: Do you believe European regulation should be applied here in the U.S.?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I think, everyone in the world deserves good privacy protection. And regardless of whether we implement the exact same regulation, I would guess, that it would be somewhat different because we have somewhat different sensibilities in the U.S. as does other countries. We're committed to rolling out the controls and the affirmative consent and the special controls around sensitive types of technology like facial recognition that are required in GDPR [GDPREU],[ICO.ORG.UK].

We're doing that around the world. So I think it's certainly worth discussing whether we should have something similar in the U.S. But what I would like to say today is, we're going to go forward and implement regardless of what the regulatory outcome is.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

So the Mercers will hang CA in the closet, but they won't shut down the actual operation, and by midsummer they'll have pulled out a half-dozen new fronts to replace it, while the media content themselves with "reporting" what's going on in CA's bankruptcy.