Palantir has become synonymous with mass surveillance. The software company is literally named after an ominous all-seeing orb in the “Lord of the Rings” books that lets its wielder spy on anything in the land. You can forgive our consternation, then, that its CEO Alex Karp is now warning about the dangers of the very high-tech panopticon he’s helping to build — a concern that seemingly stems from how it could get affect fat cats like himself. In an interview on The Builders with Walter Isaacson podcast, Karp deployed an…
