Hesse’s police have bought a controversial software from US company Palantir Technologies, which is to be used against Islamist terrorism and organized crime. This is reported by Spiegel and refers to Hessian Ministry of Interior. Palantir is suspected of having maintained contacts with company Cambridge Analytica, which is supposed to have tampered with US presidential election with illegally gained Facebook data.
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Palantir employees would already train Hessian police officers on new software. The value of program amounts according to official notification “0.01 Euro without VAT”. In contrast to mirror, Hessian Ministry of Interior acknowledged that this was “not actual price” but did not want to call it “for reasons of public security interest of state of Hesse”.
Palantir was founded in 2004 by Facebook Investor and PayPal inventor Peter Thiel with help of US Secret Service CIA. Recently, company received an order for 876 million dollars from US military.
The purchase of software in Hesse is also sensitive because company was noticed in USA due to improper use of customer data. A call for tenders had been dispensed with because re was no viable alternative on market, Hesse founded form of acquisition.
