Palantir's use of personal data from US government
Everyone: write to Palantir's board of directors and call on them
to explain what they are doing with personal data from the US government.
In my letter I called on Palentir never to process that data
together with any personal data obtained in any other way.
That would include, for example, location data.
I used the following Subject field:
You must tell us what Palantir is doing with personal data from the US
government and NEVER process it together with any other data you have.
I used the following message body:
Others are demanding that Palantir be transparent about what it does
with personal data from the US government. I join in that demand, but
that does not go far enough.
Palantir must never combine, or process together, any of that
government data with any other data it has or obtains about people.
To do so would establish a China-like system of total repression.
I want to be able to continue to love my country. I want it to remain
"the land of the free and the home of the brave." I hope you don't
want Palantir to be responsible for converting the US into a place
that people must flee for their freedom's sake.
Sincerely,
It is most effective if you write your message in your own words.
If you are in a demographic that tends to support the bully, it is
good to mention that.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue
matters.)
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the
browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your
letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
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