cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/44801476
If they have the UK’s health data, you know American hospitals have turned over their patients’ data too.
This undermine trust in the health care system. Some may be more reluctant to go to the hospital.
NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm
Submitted 4 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-peter-thiel-nhs-england-foundry-faster-data-flows/
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Hirom@beehaw.org 4 days ago
nykula@piefed.social 3 days ago
Having a centralized, easy-to-leak database of everyone in the country with stigmatized diagnoses is overall a scary thing that privacy advocates should keep fighting against, in places where it still hasn’t been implemented.
IanTwenty@piefed.social 4 days ago
This is a more recent view:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/uk_palantir_contracts/
Speaking to MPs, science minister Patrick Vallance said that the government’s deals with Palantir – which has large contracts with the NHS and the Ministry of Defence – would be done differently in the future, instead emphasizing investment in UK technology and companies.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Investing in those “quantum computers” that don’t exist, no doubt.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 days ago
First they sold off the nationalised public services and I did not speak out because I imagined I could be a rich shareholder one day.
Then they sold off the council houses, school fields and parks and I did not speak out because I imagined myself a rich landowner one day.
Then they sold our data and I did not speak out because I thought it was only data and believed them when they said it would make things better one day.
Then they sold me…
jackal@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Wasn’t there something that went round not long ago about consenting to this or not? I take it that’s not relevant anymore and we don’t get a say in this now?
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Thiel, like Musk, supported Trump for one reason: to further his business interests. Thiel is just less loud mouthy about it and hasn’t (yet) fallen out with Trump. This is what Keir Starters means when he says he’s negotiated a “trade deal” with the US. He has signed your data away to Palantir. This isn’t going to be reversed. There’s nothing the UK can do about it now and Keir doesn’t want to upset Donald more than he already has.
DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 3 days ago
It’s more than money to these pricks. Yes, that is extremely important but it’s also about reconstituting our societies so that rich white straight men are unquestionably on top and everyone else has nothing. These are Dark Enlightenment pricks.