Recent interactions with the mods on the pizzagate subverse piqued my interest in the question of who runs voat ? Well , some voaters think it might be Peter Thiel and Palantir. (See : https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2102512))

So, I revisited a couple of Palantir articles. Like this one: Palantir Connects the Dots with Big Data Archived : http://archive.is/z80ZW

It was a humanitarian project that first introduced Palantir to the U.K. division of Spain’s Santander Bank. In 2015, both companies signed on to a charity-funded initiative to look into connections between illicit financial networks and global human-trafficking rings. The initiative didn’t materialize—British restrictions on information sharing among banks got in the way—but Palantir’s software impressed Santander chief operating officer Juan Maria Olaizola. “You can say that we went from a blind date to marriage in less than six months,” says Olaizola.

Today Santander is using Palantir’s tools to figure out whether their customers are up to anything nefarious. Palantir’s analytics software can harness the bank’s proprietary data and match it against public information to check whether customers have been connected to bad acts, past or present. That “public information” typically includes criminal databases, huge streams of data from social media, and a variety of other sources. (These sources are the stuff that privacy advocates’ nightmares are made of, and Palantir and its clients uniformly decline to talk about them with specificity.) In theory, Santander or any other customer could perform this checking itself, but it would need to find engineers with the right expertise and spend a long time building code—a potentially ineffective and time-consuming process. Thanks to the effort Palantir put into Gotham and Metropolis, it has the talent and data ready to roll.

A question/riddle for Hampstead aficionados - Who used to work for Santander ?

Another riddle - How are Hampstead and Voat connected ?