Government finally publishes NHS contracts with Palantir, Faculty and big tech

wlscr | 175 points

As a UK taxpayer this makes me so angry. The fact this incredibly valuable (not to mention privacy sensitive) data is given away through backroom deals for a pittance without any transparency is just infuriating.

anonymousDan | 4 years ago

And that's why we don't trust "the good guys" with our data. There are no good guys, keep your damn data to yourself no matter what.

hyko | 4 years ago

This should probably be updated to say "UK Govt" for clarity, not everyone will immediately know what the National Health Service is.

zymhan | 4 years ago

I'm confused about what data is being provided to these companies. Is it the patient data that my GP has for example, or is it purely data that the NHS aim to gather from the contact tracing app?

McDev | 4 years ago

This has of course been Dominic Cummings’s plan for years - you can read about it quite openly on his blog, and on the blog of his friend American physicist/eugenicist Steve Hsu. The point is to allow private industry to capture the health information of private citizens in order to turn Britain into a genetic modification powerhouse- pitched on the basis of fighting genetic diseases, but in fact founded on the anti-egalitarian, genetic-determinist, race-and-iq worldview of much of the modern right

kthxbye123 | 4 years ago
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| 4 years ago

After reading the article, I think it's quite clear that both Palantir and Google paid someone off to get this contract.

xenospn | 4 years ago

At this point, if you work at Palantir, you should be very ashamed of yourself and please consider quitting.

kgraves | 4 years ago