— Malcolm HarrisPalantir was happy to see the app plan work; now it wanted a ride. Cambridge Analytica’s success suggested that Palantir could get back in the Facebook-scraping game despite the RapLeaf debacle. The company started sending high-level employees to Cambridge off the books, getting pseudonymous log-in credentials for the Cambridge Analytica databases. They worked together to pinpoint holes in the Facebook data flow, designing seemingly innocent browser extensions such as calendars and calculators that took advantage of platform integration settings to siphon information.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.