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Bloomberg News reports:
Palantir Technologies had a secret plan to deepen its relationship with the UK’s National Health Service without public scrutiny.
The US data-analytics company aimed to buy up smaller rivals that already had an existing relationship with the NHS, according to emails and strategy documents seen by Bloomberg. This approach would hopefully allow Palantir to avoid further scrutiny in working with one of the largest depositories of health data.
Palantir’s regional head Louis Mosley described the strategy in an email entitled “Buying our way in…!” sent in Sept. 2021, which outlined “hoovering up” small businesses serving the NHS to “take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance.”
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Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies had a secret plan to deepen its relationship with the UK’s National Health Service without public scrutiny https://t.co/07NJae54bf
— Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) September 30, 2022
This approach would hopefully allow Palantir to avoid further scrutiny in working with one of the largest depositories of heath data https://t.co/qJsaiuCftk pic.twitter.com/J2HHDbgnYP
— Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) September 30, 2022
Palantir hired Mandelson’s Global Counsel to lobby UK Gov but Tory MP, David Davis, said, “Palantir with a history of supporting mass surveillance, assisting drone strikes, immigration raids & predictive policing, mustn’t be placed at the heart of our NHS” https://t.co/LSzJbGYYPW
— Brexitshambles (@brexit_sham) September 30, 2022
Palantir’s spokesman said that some of the language from Mosley’s email was “regrettable” and “not an accurate characterization of our relationship with the NHS.”https://t.co/g3BFegDxrA
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) September 30, 2022