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DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday at 530 pm Mayors from multiple cities will join the co-founder 
 of Palantir, Joe Lonsdale, at a secret meeting in San Francisco. Palantir 
 is the company who provides “mission critical” technology to 
 ICE.\n\nPalantir also sells their tech to police departments across the 
 country. For six years they kept their contract with the New Orleans Police 
 Department a secret, until an investigative reporter shed light. They 
 managed to keep it so secret that even the New Orleans city council didn't 
 know about it. They did this by offering the tech through the Mayor’s 
 office as a philanthropic donation.\n\nWe usually find out about these 
 shady deals after the fact. But not this time.\n\nLeaders from Kansas City, 
 St. Louis, Richmond, and Richmond will attend, alongside Stephen Benjamin, 
 the Mayor of Colombus, South Carolina. They will join Joe Lonsdale, co 
 founder of Palantir, at a private function in San Francisco.\n\nWhen 
 Palantir’s tech was used in New Orleans, it was found to have a disparate 
 impact on vulnerable communities of color. Palantir will tell these city 
 leaders their tech helps to reduce crime, but it doesn’t work. It hurts 
 communities of color because the datasets are full of systemic bias. These 
 Mayors need to stand up for their communities and refuse to attend the 
 event.\n\nThis event is organized by Donnie Fowler, who runs Tech4America 
 (t4a.org), a public service matchmaking venture that brings together tech 
 and public leaders to tackle tough problems. From 2012-2016, Donnie was VP 
 of business development at crime prediction software startup PredPol, Inc., 
 the result of an experiment between the LAPD and UCLA.\n\nWe need your help 
 to ask the Mayor of Columbus, South Carolina and other city leaders (we 
 don't have the list of attendees) not to attend this event.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/01/18817941.php
SUMMARY:Private Function Hosted by Palantir Co-Founder for U.S. Mayors
LOCATION:Pier 5 Embarcadero\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/01/18817941.php
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