Palantir Technologies Chief Executive Alex Karp says privacy is at risk in the current data ecosystem, but engineers and technologists can help protect individuals from government snooping by placing “tags” on data that would require anyone who uses a given data point to disclose how they’re using it, The Wall Street Journal reports. Palantir has developed similar technology for the private sector and law enforcement agencies. “The behavior should be tagged in a way that a third party can always be aware of what (the engineer) is doing,” Karp said. He also noted that more technologists should go to work for the U.S. government because it is in short supply of engineers, the report states. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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