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‘Potential security risk’: Unpacking the UK’s trust issues with Palantir

Al Jazeera · · 1090 words · By John Kjorstad
Data Privacy and Security Government Oversight Corporate Ethics and Militarism
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Palantir Technologies established a one-British-pound ($1.37) National Health Service (NHS) contract during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020”
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The provided evidence for claim 0 contains general information about Palantir and the NHS but does not mention the specific £1 contract from March 2020.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dame Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Romeo (née Rice-Evans; born 20 October 1974) is a British civil servant who has served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service since Febru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Romeo
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NHS England is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_England
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. () is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics platforms. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, it was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Ste…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir
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“which translated into a six-year relationship worth nearly 400 million pounds ($546m)”
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The provided evidence does not contain any financial figures or duration details regarding the total value of Palantir's relationship with the NHS.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Louis Mosley (born c. February 1983) is a British businessman and politician who is currently CEO of Palantir UK. A member of the Mosley family, Mosley is also a former Conservative Party councillor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mosley
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NHS England is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_England
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. () is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics platforms. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, it was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Ste…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir
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“The company’s X account posted a 22-point manifesto recently”
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Multiple independent sources (The Guardian, Common Dreams, and another web search result) refer to a 'Palantir manifesto' and its controversial contents.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of the American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 20…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stephen Andrew Cohen (born September 30, 1982) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known as a co-founder and the president of Palantir Technologies, a platform for analyzing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cohen_(entrepreneur)
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“Among the points were calls for universal national military service and the advancement of “AI weapons”.”
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The Guardian and other web results explicitly mention that the manifesto includes calls for national service in the USA and the use of AI weapons.
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web search NEUTRAL — AI weapons, national service, and 'inferior cultures': Palantir's controversial manifesto explained.“A company that has such naked ideological motivations and lack of respect for democratic rule of la…
https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/22/ramblings-of-a-supe…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Palantir manifesto is based on the book The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, written by Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir, and Nicholas Zamiska,…
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palantir-technofascist-man…
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web search NEUTRAL — “Palantir’s manifesto, which embraces AI state surveillance of citizens along with national service in the USA, is either a parody of a RoboCop film, or a disturbing narcissistic rant from an arrogant…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-…
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“Opposition to Palantir’s 330-million-pound ($450m) flagship data programme named Federated Data Platform (FDP), which is used by the NHS”
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While the evidence mentions the Federated Data Platform (FDP) in the context of data access (Claim 6), it does not provide the specific valuation of £330 million for the program.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir David Michael Davis (born 23 December 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Goole and Pocklington. He was previously the MP for Haltemprice…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(British_politicia…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NHS England is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_England
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. () is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics platforms. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, it was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Ste…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir
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“Officials are now openly considering a 2027 break point for the contract.”
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The provided evidence mentions NHS pay rises for 2026-2027 but contains no information regarding a 2027 contract break point for Palantir.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NHS England is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_England
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Health Service (NHS) is the collective term for the four separate publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service_(Engla…
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“The Financial Times reported that NHS England had allowed Palantir employees “unlimited” access to patient data, citing an internal briefing note.”
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Three separate web search results confirm that the Financial Times reported an internal briefing note stating Palantir employees were granted 'unlimited' access to patient data.
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web search NEUTRAL — The NHS is granting staff from companies including Palantir 'unlimited access' to identifiable patient data while working on its federated data platform (FDP), the Financial Times (FT) reported. The c…
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/palantir-to-be-granted…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Financial Times reported that NHS England had allowed Palantir employees "unlimited" access to patient data, citing an internal briefing note. Palantir's origins are rooted in defence.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/12/palantir
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web search NEUTRAL — NHS England has agreed to create an "admin" role granting non-staff "unlimited access" to the NDIT and identifiable patient data, the FT report said, citing an internal briefing note. The NDIT is ...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/britains-nhs-to-grant…
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“Its Gotham platform is used by intelligence, military, and policing communities around the world.”
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Wikipedia and other authoritative sources explicitly state that Palantir Gotham is used by the US Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and other allied military/law enforcement agencies.
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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir Gotham is an intelligence tool used by militaries and counter-terrorism analysts, including the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir
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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir Gotham is used by defense, intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the United States and other allied countries. The platform offers real-time intelligence that can help military officia…
https://builtin.com/articles/what-is-palantir
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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir Gotham is the operating system for defense decision making. Watch this notional demo to see Gotham in action.Learn more about Palantir Gotham 21 Lau...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxKghrZU5w8
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“Foundry, the company’s civilian solution, is what underpins the NHS’s FDP.”
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“a 2020 review by Privacy International and No Tech For Tyrants found the two systems share the same Palantir DNA.”
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“NHS England released a less heavily redacted version of the FDP contract – but roughly 100 pages remain withheld”
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“Leaders at the NHS Greater Manchester integrated care board... have spent six years building their own analytics platform without Palantir.”
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“Palantir’s Foundry platform underpins contracts across at least 10 UK government departments”
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“Two senior Ministry of Defence systems engineers warned The Nerve in March that by aggregating data across different government datasets, Palantir could generate top-secret information from entirely unclassified sources.”
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