How A Former Palantir Exec Built A Google-Like Surveillance Tool For The Police
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🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Founded and backed by former Palantir execs, Peregrine Technologies hopes to turbocharge local police department access to surveillance data, while curbing cops’ abuses of their technologies.
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| 0:00.0 | Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, August 18th. |
| 0:05.0 | Today on Forbes, how a former Palantier exec built a Google-like surveillance tool for the police. |
| 0:14.0 | In mid-2001, Nick Noon was on the stand in a Bay Area courtroom, serving as an expert witness in |
| 0:20.1 | a murder trial. |
| 0:22.4 | His company, Paragrin, had provided the software that had connected mobile locations, |
| 0:27.4 | license plate data, historical police records, and surveillance camera footage to help |
| 0:32.4 | San Pablo Police Department investigators |
| 0:34.8 | place multiple suspects at the site where it occurred and he was laying out the evidence. |
| 0:40.0 | The jury found it convincing. Soon after, the defendants were given lengthy prison sentences. |
| 0:46.0 | San Pablo P.D. Chief Brian Bubar recalled, |
| 0:49.0 | quote, |
| 0:50.0 | Peragrin was really powerful for the prosecution of that specific case. |
| 0:55.0 | It was a triumph for the software, which Noon and co-founder Ben Rudolph had built after embedding for 18 months with the San Pablo PD. |
| 1:03.6 | There, they worked major cases alongside seasoned detectives |
| 1:07.4 | to learn how local police departments |
| 1:09.2 | could better use the data at their disposal |
| 1:11.3 | to solve crimes. |
| 1:13.2 | They use that experience to inform the development of what is essentially a super-powered |
| 1:17.9 | Google for police data. |
| 1:20.1 | Enter a name or address into its web-based app, |
| 1:22.8 | and Paragrin quickly scans court records, arrest reports, |
| 1:26.4 | police interviews, body cam footage transcripts, |
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