[1]https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthoriz
   ed-access-to-private-data/

   A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI
   allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more
   than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing.

   The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a
   sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel
   — was detailed in a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal
   court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith.

   Data recovered from Griffith’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, which was
   obtained through a federal search warrant in March 2020, was accessed
   on Palantir for more than a year by at least four FBI employees, all of
   whom work outside New York and were not investigating the case,
   prosecutors wrote.

   The FBI case agent assigned to Griffith’s case was alerted to the
   unauthorized access earlier this month, when another agent emailed him
   and said an analyst accessed the search warrant material on Palantir,
   according to the letter.

   “An FBI analyst, in the course of conducting a separate investigation,
   had identified communications between the defendant and the subject of
   that other investigation by means of searches on the Platform that
   accessed the Search Warrant Returns,” the feds wrote in the letter
   filed Tuesday.

   Palantir through the program’s default settings.

   “When data is loaded onto the Platform, the default setting is to
   permit access to the data to other FBI personnel otherwise authorized
   to access the Platform,” prosecutors wrote in the letter.

   The material was accessed at least four times from May 2020 to August
   2021, according to the letter.

   The employees who accessed the data told prosecutors that they did not
   recall using the information in their investigations.

   Manhattan prosecutors instructed Palantir employees to delete the data
   on Aug. 17 and said they do not intend on using the information in
   their case against Griffith, according to the letter.

   In a statement, a Palantir spokesperson said the error was caused by
   the FBI.

   “There was no glitch in the software. Our platform has robust access
   and security controls. The customer also has rigorous protocols
   established to protect search warrant returns, which, in this case, the
   end user did not follow,” the spokesperson said.

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   The mishap could suggest a wider issue with the FBI’s use of Palantir,
   said Albert Fox Cahn, the founder of Surveillance Technology Oversight
   Project, a privacy and civil rights group.

   “Since this same issue will happen whenever documents are uploaded with
   the default settings, and since there doesn’t seem to be any sort of
   automated notice when they have been improperly accessed, this suggests
   that it’s happening a lot more than just this one case,” he said.

   Griffith is accused of violating international sanctions by traveling
   to North Korea and delivering a speech about cryptocurrency.

   He pleaded not guilty after his arrest in 2019 and was subsequently
   ordered held in jail pending his trial this year, according to court
   filings.

   An attorney for Griffith, Brian Klein, said he is looking at legal
   options regarding the error.

   “We are very troubled by what happened. We are looking into the legal
   remedies,” Klein said in an email.
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References

   1. https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthorized-access-to-private-data/
   2. https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/palantir-buys-50m-worth-of-gold-bars-to-counter-black-swan-event/
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