Palantir £330m NHS contract increasingly a liability for Labour

Yet another parliamentary oversight committee has urged the Labour government to drop its multimillion-pound NHS contract with Palantir. The controversial firm’s contract is valued at £330 million.

The health and social care select committee joins the science and technology committee in shunning Palantir. The latter stated the need for the government to find alternative technology partnerships in June.

The allegedly war-criminal US spyware firm is steadily working into the UK’s National Health Service. It claims to provide streamlining technology and data services, but MPs cite “serious mistrust”.

Critics accuse the notorious spy-tech company of enabling genocide in Palestine and powering ICE’s illegal and deadly raids on migrants in the USA.

Palantir is feeling heat from the NHS, but will lobbied politicians listen?

Palantir is the CIA’s new war machine

Palantir was co-founded by the Trump-supporting ‘anti-christ’-obsessed tech billionaire Peter Thiel. It contracts “special ops” work for the US, Israeli and UK militaries. Back in 2017, the Guardian wrote:

Peter Thiel’s CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its ‘crime predicting’ techniques against insurgents in Iraq. The same methods are now being sold to police departments.

Since then, Palantir has been deployed by US police departments and bipartisan ICE militias which target, abduct and often kill migrants and citizens. Its business objective is to market itself as unavoidable tech which, if governments decline its services, will — laughably — endanger populations.

Early on, the AI company was exclusively funded with CIA deep-state money via the Pentagon’s venture fund, In-Q-Tel. Its high-stock valuation is owed almost entirely to US government funding, making it a largely state-engineered venture company. Its CEO Alex Karp openly admits that they “kill people.”

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Palantir have been proudly vocal about their support for and entanglement with the Zionist project — now also enveloping the EU and UK. Researchers credibly accuse the CIA-funded tech firm of enabling the Zionist genocide in Palestine through its AI weapons tech systems. Relatedly, Palantir famously bought a full-page ad in the New York Times stating:

Palantir Stands with Israel

As with many great things corrupt, corporate and/or Zionist in British politics, Palantir’s favourability with our ruling class was brought about by Peter Mandelson. Mandelson, the “best friend” of infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, used his latterly untenable role as US ambassador to secure Palantir contracts.

As a result, Palantir won itself an entirely unjustifiable say in what weapons purchases the UK should make. The Canary and others reported that our most intimate personal data could feasibly fall into the hands of the Trump administration or the CIA, given the glaring connections between both and Palantir.

New report exposes how Palantir is taking over the British war machine

Politicians wake up to Palantir threat

MPs from the two committees say they found “serious mistrust” among the public and the medical profession of its NHS system. They also found contested evidence of its supposed ‘benefits’, and cited other tools available that would deliver similar, or even better, results for the public.

Beyond Westminster, healthcare tech workers strongly distrust the firm. Some 117 NHS data and technology workers broke ranks to call for Palantir’s contract deal to be axed. They warn that patient privacy protections are inadequate and that loss of public trust could harm the quality of vital health data.

In a letter to the health secretary, James Murray, the data and tech workers wrote:

Data completeness will be compromised by the erosion of patient trust; data privacy protections are inadequate and data structures are at risk of misuse.

One senior data professional, speaking to the Guardian on grounds of anonymity, said:

The FDP [Federated Data Programme] has not shown me any significant technological benefits whatsoever. A frankly mediocre software is being forced on NHS data systems at the expense of patient trust, professional integrity and the fundamental values of the NHS. How can we say we want to use software for saving lives when that same software is also used to kill and ruin lives?

In May, London mayor Sadiq Khan blocked the Metropolitan Police from awarding Palantir a £50m contract. He said that Londoners want to see public money paid to companies that “share the values of our city”. Palantir then launched a lawsuit against Khan’s office, claiming the blocking was wrongful.

Intense lobbying pressure from the AI company, senior Met policing figures and conservative politicians alike followed shortly thereafter. Khan then granted Palantir a 12-month pilot project mere weeks later, succumbing to the corporate lobbyists’ pressure. This should be a strong warning to all other arms of state.

MPs warn Palantir influence over British state is ‘unacceptable point of weakness’

(Is) global hostility to the AI company rising(?)

The two Westminster committees which have spoken out against Palantir are by no means alone.

In a major move towards digital security and national sovereignty, the French intelligence and security services recently ended all Palantir contracts. They favour homegrown tech firm ChapsVision instead.

Palantir remains deeply embedded in UK state infrastructure despite the Commons technology select committee calling for the government to divest on 4 June. Politico reported on 16 June:

Palantir has faced criticism in Europe for its close ties to the U.S. administration, as the bloc seeks to wean off U.S. technology for everything from sensitive cloud to AI, social media and public software services.

ChapsVision was already involved in a partnership launched in 2022 to support security services including intelligence, customs and law enforcement.

Politico also reported that Germany had chosen French company ChapsVision over Palantir. Ironically, Politico and the Telegraph found themselves scandalised over Palantir sponsorship.

Yet the Canadian military complex has almost entirely submitted itself to the AI company’s nefarious private wishes. The EU recently succumbed to Washington’s so-called Pax Silica Directive, which is headed by former Palantir employee (now US undersecretary) Jacob Helberg. Complete integration is their mission.

British MPs have now repeatedly warned that Palantir is an “unacceptable point of weakness” in the British state. Still, Palantir remains embedded within our state apparatus and only plans to further integrate.