The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir
WIRED
The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir
Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington.
Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington.
Palantir currently holds contracts worth around £670m in the public sector, including major deals in health, defence, and policing. The largest—a £330m contract to manage healthcare data on the NHS Federated Data Platform
These corporations have to know that they NEVER have things locked down, they can always lose business. Pulling the plug on a major contract with a major company, will send a harsh message to the rest, and go a long ways to keeping them in line.
And it will make Peter Thiel cry, which is nice.
Is there anything in the UK after Brexit that is similar to the GDPR? While it does little to protect EU citizens from the influence of corrupt politicians, it is at least a law on the books that stands in the way of the neo-fascists’ diabolical schemes. Is there anything comparable in the UK?