NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

While I agree, permission still means something.

If they're found to have held onto it, processed it or shared it, they'll be told off very sternly and asked politely to not do it again.

Definitely fine.

All the Palantir employees have read that clause of course.

In Australia when the biggest health insurer had ALL patient records stolen, the Board of Directors immediately granted themselves very large cash bonuses (true).

Insert "this is fine" meme

> Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why?

Daddy Thiel needs a bloodbank. The last one mysteriously died under the guise of a 'suicide'.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...

I'm guessing because insurance companies would love to put their hands on that data, so it can be repackaged and sold off. Or Palantir can offer a model trained on it, so it's not technically selling the data itself.

I was wondering. Usually if something drops a couple of pages suddenly it’s because of the flamewar trigger: the number of comments exceeding the number of upvotes is a proxy measure for something not designed to elucidate meaningful discussion. Here, it dropped when it got to ~90 upvotes to 15 comments, so it wasn’t that trigger. Maybe as it’s a UK-specific story the concentrated geographical voting pattern triggered a voting-ring trigger?

And this comment is being downvoted as well to hide the fact.

Because Palantir have government contracts? Seriously?

You claim to be in Sweden, then you should surely know that Palantir are very much in bed with the government there including police monitoring.

I mean, it's all a matter of perspective and where you are coming from. Like, I could easily say that literally any piece of news coming from the US makes me not want to move there no matter how much money you pay me. But at the end of the day, it's just news. It's like that whole panic about London being the most surveiled city in the world with the most cameras per capita in the world - and of course neglecting to mention that most of these cameras are in private hands and police don't have access to them. Get your car or bike stolen in London and discover that no, the police cannot just track them street by street like in James Bond.

I literally had someone ask me the other day if it's safe to go to London. Like, to visit as a tourist. We've reached some level of absurdity that is almost comedic, but that's what news does to people.