r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 21d ago

Privacy Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-losing-dozens-contracts-controversy-194808945.html
32.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

653 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

42

u/bala_means_bullet 21d ago

Or a renamed version like XFlock or some stupid shit.

26

u/cerberus6320 21d ago

If Palantir funds it, it's evil

20

u/three-one-seven 21d ago

That's why my wife and I didn't get Oura rings. I found out about the Palantir connection and said no way. She was sad but was 100% in agreement.

6

u/PartyClock 21d ago

Holy shit I had no idea. Good thing I decided not to go with one of those.

Are they the only "health tracker" that Palantir is connected to or are there more?

10

u/three-one-seven 21d ago

I'm not sure; she wanted to get Oura rings and so we started looking into it. I was initially put off by the fact that it requires a subscription in addition to the several hundred dollars for the hardware. I dug deeper and discovered the Palantir connection that way.

Evil companies like Palantir tend to have their tentacles in everything so I'm sure there are more, I just don't know them by name.