Aug 19, 2020
Courtney Bowman leads Palantir’s Privacy and Civil Liberties
Engineering Team. In this capacity he works extensively with local,
state and international governments and philanthropic partners to
develop technology-driven solutions to information sharing needs
that respect applicable privacy, security and data integrity
requirements. He does so in a way that is informed by experience
and well thought out approaches that we consider an exemplar for
tech firms, enterprises and government data strategists. In this
OODAcast we examine some of his approaches.
Our discussion covered ethics, compliance and security in the
modern age including a deep dive into approaches to managing data
in a crisis. Through it all, Courtney provides insights that make
it clear that privacy and ethics do not need to be placed at risk,
even in a major crisis. Key to safeguarding privacy and security of
data is having a well thought out data strategy focused on the
right objectives, backed up with a secure data architecture.
For more on Courtney and his views on the ethics of data in
crisis see:
Best practices for using data during a crisis
The Architecture of Privacy: On engineering trustworthy
safeguards