Article: Why Palantir’s UK Health Data System Matters Beyond Surveillance Fears

[Kim Locke]

Why Palantir’s UK Health Data System Matters Beyond Surveillance Fears

"England’s National Health Service (NHS) is implementing a system it has called the “Federated Data Platform.” The platform, which is run primarily by controversial military contractor Palantir and provides the health service with a new operating system to handle its fragmented and extensive data, would give a future UK government the technical capacity to use patients’ healthcare data to unleash unprecedented mass surveillance, experts and technologists have warned Tech Policy Press."

The article is here: https://www.techpolicy.press/why-palantirs-uk-health-data-system-matters-beyond-surveillance-fears/