Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/palantirs-nhs-england-contract-opens-door-to-government-abuse-of-power-health-bosses-told
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In spite of doing a lot a data analysis work, I’m not that clued up on the tech and industry factors so I’m not sure on if there are reasonable alternatives to Palantir’s offer.
What I am certain of though is that having a single private vendor so locked in to the public supply chain is a massive disaster waiting to happen and something needs to be done. The structural dependency of the UK state on private providers has been a growing problem for a while, but this is such an extreme example.
[Just yesterday, there was an article where Alex Karp the CEO of Palantir actively bragged about disenfranchising women with his technology.](https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power) Just another example of ‘protecting women and girls’ shown to be a complete smokescreen.
I’m sure that an enquiry in to this will be immediately discussed, probably to be chaired by Lord Monckton of Cheshunt.
That’s the fucking **point**.
These chuckle fucks took Gattaca amongst other films as a guideline not a warning.
Anything about Palantir should get us very worried.
This didn’t even go to tender its insane. If I want to spend 10k on something I have to come back to senior managers with at least 3 options.
Same thing with [Bedfordshire police](https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-police-working-with-controversial-tech-giant-palantir-on-real-time-surveillance-network/) using it to [profile for political views](https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/bedfordshire-police-using-ai-tool-to-profile-political-views-sex-life-race-and-health-data/) and now Kier wants to use it for checking age online.
This needs rethinking massively, god knows recent events should be a hard stop and sourced internally moving forward. Why were doing this this is completely nuts.
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We could argue that we should be moving away from American service companies and towards european ones.
I’ve had 3 letters through the door trying to encourage me to sign up for “our future health”, a supposed public health study that collects DNA and has sketchy privacy terms. The NHS is spending a lot of money trying to get people to take part in this – it doesn’t have clear aims and I’ve never had so many letters about a study like this before. I know I sound tin foil hat about this but since all the Epstein stuff came out and now the Palantir CEO’s comments, it genuinely feels like we are being sorted as human beings at this point. Don’t sign up for the study, don’t give away your DNA.
Can we just… not have an evil tech giant involved in data management at all please?
I’m not sure why this needs to happen at all. (Other than the obvious sweaty political palms being greased)
Wait, so the concern is that the software is interoperable and could, in theory, let you link up disparate datasets?
Fuck lads, we had better come down hard on this Excel fellow next, I hear his formulae enable all sorts of data stuff.
We shouldn’t prevent abuses of power by making sure the government is incompetent, ffs.