WASHINGTON: France’s move Tuesday to drop Palantir from its intelligence services is the latest sign of European unease with the American data-mining firm — a company that has grown from a CIA-backed startup into one of the most powerful technology players of the Trump era. - ‘Lord of the Rings’ - Palantir was born in 2003 from former founders of PayPal — known as the PayPal Mafia — in the wake of the September 11 attacks. It pitched software that could sift through vast intelligence datasets to flag threats — an idea adapted from PayPal’s fraud-detection systems.

Europe is seeking to wean off U.S. tech for sensitive services.

France's domestic intelligence agency will stop working with American AI giant Palantir, as European nations increasingly doubt the dependability of the United States.

France is moving away from American AI technology for its intelligence services. The government announced it will stop using Palantir's data systems. A French company,…