data governance
5 posts
Palantir was blacklisted for working exactly as designed
Spain's Palantir blacklist is not about capability. It is what happens when a system executes trust granted once and never revalidates its lawful basis.
Europol's second database ran unwatched for years
A board-level analysis of Europol's unsafeguarded secondary database and the European Commission oversight gap that did not constrain it for years.
They kept a folder on everyone who objected
MSG built a dossier on facial-recognition activists. The exposure is one party holding identity data and the authority to target it with it.
The Open Courts Act exposes what PACER fees hid
PACER's per-page fee was an accidental privacy brake. Making court records free is right - but only if redaction, governed bulk access, and security replace it.
The franchisee was always inside
The 7-Eleven franchisee leak shows how contractual trust boundaries drift from data scope, and how systems execute on reference rather than verification.