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USA Today's parent company partnered with Palantir to analyze audience data amid declining search traffic. The deal raises questions about data privacy and surveillance practices at the nation's largest newspaper chain.
USA Today's parent company partnered with Palantir, a data analytics company known for government surveillance contracts, to analyze audience behavior as the newspaper's search traffic declined. The partnership gives Palantir access to detailed reader data—what stories people read, how long they stay, what they search for—across the nation's largest newspaper chain.
This is a surveillance relationship disguised as a business deal. Palantir's core business is extracting patterns from data to profile people. USA Today is handing over its entire audience to a company that specializes in that work. The financial desperation is real—traffic is falling, so they need a technical solution. But the solution puts reader data into the hands of a company whose whole model is turning information into targeting. It's not just a data partnership; it's outsourcing the surveillance of your own audience.
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