Palantir has ‘unlimited access’ to patient data, investigation reveals

The Good Law Project is leading a campaign following a recently leaked briefing document that reveals NHS contractor Palantir already has full access to patients’ data.

Moreover, despite prior promises from the NHS that it would protect our identifiable data from this kind of abuse, officials exploited a loophole to grant Palantir staff in “admin roles” unlimited access.

Patients’ data could also be available to Palantir contractors.

Palantir awarded NHS contract in 2020

CEO of the spy-tech firm, Peter Thiel, recently delivered his sinister ‘manifesto’ detailing AI state surveillance and ‘population control’, on the backs of its complicity in the genocide in Gaza. It should surely follow that this highly concerning access to NHS health data in the UK could prove disastrous, or even fatal.

As a result, the Good Law Project is urging people to make it clear that British people do not consent to this huge overreach by billionaires into the NHS.

A leaked document reveals Palantir staff are being granted “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data.

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— Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) May 11, 2026

Good Law Project: ‘This isn’t just for Palantir’

The Financial Times broke the story this month, prompting widespread concern.

This video from the Good Law Project aims to draw wider attention from the public to the risks that this huge scale of corporate access poses to people’s health prospects.

Sounding the alarm, they stated on X:

Everything that we fear when it comes to Palantir and our health data is coming true.

The Financial Times recently got hold of an internal leaked briefing document that revealed that Palantir staff already have unlimited access to identifiable patient data, so that could be your private medical history attached to your name.

When the NHS signed this deal, they insisted that they would keep the keys, that all data would be staying underneath NHS control and only used for direct care.

But they have managed to find a loophole: the NHS have created admin roles which are designed to see patient data and identifiable patient details fully attached.

This isn’t just for Palantir — this is for them and any contractors they choose to hire. We want to tear up this contract between Palantir and the NHS, and you can join our movement at the link in our bio, but let me know what you think down below. Did you predict this was this on the cards? What’s your thoughts?

A defence company has no business in the NHS

Al Jazeera also reported on this potential security risk, saying how the trust that was implied through the COVID-19 contract awarded to Palantir has been eroded.

The spy-tech firm won the NHS contract for £1 in 2020 which is now worth a lucrative £400 million for Thiel and co.

It is worth noting that this kind of wealth appreciation has become pretty commonplace for the world’s richest whilst ordinary people increasingly suffer. 

As a result, calls are being made to rip up this contract to prevent the inevitable exploitation of data for the financial gain of billionaires.

Considering Palantir’s proven involvement in the genocide on Gaza, this really should not be a hard fight to win.

Speaking to Al Jazeera this month, Duncan McCann, who leads on technology and data at the Good Law Project, said:

Palantir is perceived as a defence contractor.

If they had just stayed in that lane, I think people might accept that. But a defence company has inherently different values than [a healthcare organisation like] the NHS, and that’s where I think this [concern] was created.

People warned us this was coming — it’s time to listen

Despite intimidation tactics, NHS doctors and human rights groups have been sounding the alarm since the beginning. They have been demanding the NHS stop using this patient data management platform pushed by ‘murder tech’ firm Palantir.

It seems the only authorities who are for its use is our government, which happens to receive huge sums in donations from pro-Israel donors and corporates. However, with the political will, this sinister overreach can be resisted.

Sadiq Khan has reportedly been considering blocking the purchase of Palantir’s AI tool as he believes the firm acts “contrary to London’s values”.

Therefore, it should naturally follow that a firm profiting from mass murder and the surveillance of ordinary people is contrary to NHS values and we’d hope, our values as a country. After all, it is in the state’s interests to efficiently and effectively manage the nation’s health. A profit incentive goes directly against that mission.

The Canary is urging people to support the Good Law Project’s campaign and send a clear message to the British government, and Wes Streeting. Our health data is not a source of profit for the richest and most murderous, billionaires.

It is time for the British people to say “hands off” to the greedy, morally bankrupt super-rich.

Featured image via the Canary