Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.
(lemmy.world)
Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.
This "too dangerous to exist" argument is seemingly more true for nuclear technology, but the world recognized the threat and came together to manage it.
I will grant you that database and ability to search it lends itself easily to popular oppression, but it still requires thinking, breathing humans to do the oppressing.
Most technology is not dangerous without psychopaths in power, and damn near everything is dangerous with psychopaths in power.