Palantir, the AI company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, is at the center of controversy after a New York Post report revealed that a glitch in its software program allegedly allowed unauthorized FBI staff to access private data belonging to jailed Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith.
According to the publication, the alleged breach was exposed in a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against Griffith, a researcher with the Ethereum Foundation. Griffith is accused of violating international sanctions by traveling to North Korea and delivering a speech about cryptocurrency. If found guilty, he faces up to 20 years in jail.
The glitch meant that data recovered from his Twitter and Facebook accounts—obtained through a federal search warrant in March 2020—was accessed on Palantir by “at least four FBI employees” without authorization, for more than a year, according to the Post.
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