The TechCrunch portal has received a secret document dating from 2013 with data from the software maker ‘ Palantir Technologies company. The document contains information about the tools of data analysis that uses the back gray and numerous lists its major customers.
The work of this company have always been very discreet . The leaked document reveals that many US government agencies rely on Palantir and one of the first contracts awarded to the company was in 2006 with JIEDDO (Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization), a US government agency responsible for leading and coordinating all actions related to the fight against explosives home, and during the period between 2007 and 2009 was used in more than 50 state programs.
In addition, from 2013 Palantir was used to perform their actions for at least 12 agencies under the US Government. , among which include the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Marine Corps and the US Air Force.
main tool that this company uses is the Data Mining to make connections and sequencing between the available information. One of the main advantages is that the answer to the demands not offered in Structured Query Language (SQL, for its acronym in English) but a ‘natural’ language returned in real time is used.
The document also reveals that cofounder of the company is Peter Thiel, also responsible for the company PayPal . Thus, the system is based on the mechanism of fraud algorithms aimed at detecting anomalies and threats used by this company for electronic payment.
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