The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

Harry Halpin, CEO of PrivacyNym, argues that programmers have a moral duty to resist companies like Palantir, which he characterizes as combining corporate surveillance capabilities with state power to create "technofascism." He contends that mass surveillance systems, originally justified by national security concerns, inevitably expand to target citizens, dissidents, and entire populations, and can only be effectively countered through privacy-protecting code rather than regulation. Halpin also critiques what he sees as a declining American empire relying on automated warfare and surveillance technology maintained by corrupt leadership.