Commentary: Cohere and Palantir's AI Partnership Raises Surveillance Concerns in Canada
By
Dan Fournier
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Summary
This opinion piece by Dan Fournier critiques Cohere, an AI company partnered with Palantir, alleging its involvement in mass surveillance infrastructure targeting Canadian citizens and businesses. The article connects Cohere's work to a broader "digital control grid" being built through Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), including Digital IDs, Age Verification schemes, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). The author argues these technologies are being interconnected to enable global digital monitoring and control of citizens' online behaviors and actions.
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Digital IDs, Age Verification schemes, and eventual deployment of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) will all be interconnected and used to enable this global digital co
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