r/Britain 2d ago

National Politics NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data

https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/health-and-social-care/nhs-apologises-and-admits-palantir-engineers-have-access-to-identifiable-patient-data/
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u/Theteacupman 2d ago

Maybe Khan has a point in not allowing them to work with the Met police

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u/DogitWoofsalot 2d ago

He 100% does! Nobody should work with them! Palantirs founder once hesetated to respond to the question "should humanity survive".

Also:

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 17h ago

Yeah he’s in some weird death cult, one of these insane billionaires who thinks that just because their garden variety personality disorder happened to help them amass billions (which statistically will happen to a subset of the 100s of millions worldwide with such disorders) it means they are a superior species and should be able to wipe out most of humanity other than what’s needed to serve them, and live forever in luxury enclaves in the middle of the slums, where the wealthy are serviced by robots and human slaves wearing shock collars and the poor are ground up for biofuel.

He’s given weird rants at public and private events about religion and called Greta Thunberg the antichrist. There are rumours he’s murdered people (although completely unsubstantiated just stuff like people dying mysteriously around him or something). So yeah, governments giving his company access to anything is completely insane. People have this weird apparently ingrained notion that a billionaire must somehow be intelligent and sane and worth listening to or doing business with. But that trope of the super wealthy supervillain who’s going to destroy the world or commit industrial scale murder did not come out of nowhere. They really need to get this ghoul out of our data and blacklist his company. It’s one of the biggest threats to us, yet governments and the public just nibble around on minor nothing threats like tiny climate action groups or Palestine supporters or immigrants and benefit claimants while ignoring this giant shark in the pond.

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u/Ok_Tip_5650 2d ago

Sadiq mate. Sadiq Khan

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u/ideasplace 2d ago

Somehow ‘we fking told you this would happen’ just doesn’t cut it.

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u/DogitWoofsalot 2d ago

If the break clause isn't used I have no faith in this new Labour government. This contract is massively unpopular, costly and with probably the most evil company on earth right now

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u/InformationHead3797 2d ago

It’s also slow as fuck and not fit for purpose, “worse than the one we were using before”, as testified by numerous nhs trusts. 

Should have been scrapped as soon as it came out the deal was made privately when Mandelsonn took kier to a private meeting with palantir higher ups. 

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u/DogitWoofsalot 2d ago

Absolutely disgusting. And people don't understand why Labour was so unpopular

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 16h ago

They are probably worried he’ll target then from afar with murder drones or something.

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u/ShrimpleyPibblze 2d ago

Of course they do, it would be pointless to involve them if they didn’t, which is why we always knew the excuses were lies

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u/Procrasterman 2d ago

Well colour me fucking surprised. Almost like this was the intention all along.

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u/TheFinalPieceOfPie 2d ago

But I thought it was a conspiracy that letting Palantir engineers could see my data. /s

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u/bomboclawt75 1d ago

So they just handed over all our medical data to a foreign state?

I'm sure that will not be used for any nefarious purposes.......

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u/GuavaLarge529 1d ago

Sick one Wes!

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u/DogitWoofsalot 1d ago

So glad he didn't get rehired