PALANTIR WILL CONTROL THE BRITAIN NHS DATA ?

Palantir has been awarded a £ 23 million contract to continue its work on the NHS Covid-19 Data Store. The two-year contract was first reported today by British news sites openDemocracy and Foxglove Legal, which have campaigned for transparency on deals between the NHS and big tech companies. In March, the UK government announced a massive NHS data deal with private technology companies. Experts warned that this could result in an "unprecedented" transfer of private health information from citizens to controversial private companies such as the American cyber security firm Palantir, a covert artificial intelligence group founded by a Trump-backed billionaire who collaborates for years with the CIA, F bi and NSA .

The two British sites revealed that just as Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the new vaccine and told the British that life would be "back to normal" by Easter, his government was quietly signing a lucrative deal with Palantir, worth £ 23 million, to manage its huge health data archive for two years. The contract, awarded on December 11, paves the way for Palantir to play an important long-term role in the NHS beyond COVID - now, even by the government’s own admission. It is not yet clear what exactly Palantir had access to: the list of SSN datasets that the American company can draw on, in fact, would have been canceled from the contract, because it was awarded under the Crown…