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by paxys 998 days ago
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.
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> 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.