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# racism in, racism out - Doctors Without Boredom
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/matthewloftus-2018-05-15-213/
- Published: 2018-05-15T08:36:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T16:49:19.000Z
- Description: This article about Palantir is something else: “The world changed when it became clear everyone could be targeted using Palantir,” says a former JPMorgan cyber expert who worked with Cavicchia at one point on the insider threat team. “Nefarious ideas […]
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Loftus, Criminal Justice

[This article about Palantir](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) is something else:

> “The world changed when it became clear everyone could be targeted using Palantir,” says a former JPMorgan cyber expert who worked with Cavicchia at one point on the insider threat team. “Nefarious ideas became trivial to implement; everyone’s a suspect, so we monitored everything. It was a pretty terrible feeling.”

Reading it reminded me of another great essay, an even longer one at *The New Atlantis* [examining the algorithms used in criminal sentencing](https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/algorithmic-injustice?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) and the thorny issue of racial bias. Both articles point out the chicken-and-egg problem of technology: a society oriented towards greed and a justice system steeped in racism will indeed produce tools that perpetuate these problems, but the tools themselves can also exacerbate these problems themselves.