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Palantir’s Reputation Stalks Its Bid for the UK’s National Health Data (wired.com)
24 points by benjvi 998 days ago
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Regardless of reputation, it's wild that a country's government can even consider putting something as critical as its entire citizenry's health data in the hands of a foreign company. It takes one national security letter from the white house and the entire UK is compromised.
> it's wild that a country's government can even consider putting something as critical as its entire citizenry's health data in the hands of a foreign company.

The capital city of UK is Washington D.C. Since a long time.

Palantir was funded by the CIA (In-Q-Tel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

No letter required.

Do not under any circumstances allow them access to that!
First Google now Palantir, I'm quite worried to see what privacy and ethical violations end up happening.