Awarding of contract to create new data platform prompts immediate concerns about security of medical records
  • @WoefKat@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41•7 months ago

    They’ve certainly “taken back control” from those pesky EU privacy regulations.

  • Jaysyn
    40•7 months ago

    You guys are fucking morons letting these techfascists anywhere near your healthcare system.

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27•7 months ago

    Seems odd to describe Peter Thiel as a “libertarian” in an article about his creepy panopticon spy firm getting yet another government contract.

    • @mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      15•7 months ago

      Hes a monarchist libertarian by his own admission. He wants small city-states with kings with the only option to change laws being leaving, i.e whoever owns the gold, makes the rules.

      A coincidentally ideal situation for a billionare.

      Whike in colledge, he explicitly stated that letting women vote is a mistake. Hes just expanded that idiocy to the next level in his mega/maga wealth.

  • @TelcontarEnglish
    15•7 months ago

    Ok but Palantir is a top tier name for a spy company

    • @mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      14•7 months ago

      Theil is a grade A weirdo that 100% picked the name on purpose because of the LoTR reference.

      The lotr franchise is far too good for a shithead like him, but it’s no suprise he likes to larp in the words of a better man.

      • @mykl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•7 months ago

        he likes to larp in the words of a better man

        That’s such a great description of this kind of tech-bro behaviour.

  • ObiniceEnglish
    11•7 months ago

    Companies own our government and run it, what do you expect. Of course they’re going to get into bed with deeply evil organisations.

    Our government is run by evil companies via evil politicians.

  • @Yewb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•7 months ago

    This was one of the stocks Wallstreet bets had their nuts in wouldn’t be surprised if they are holding.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    6•7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The NHS has caused controversy by handing the US spy technology company Palantir a £330m contract to create a new data platform, triggering fears about the privacy of patients’ medical details.

    The move immediately prompted concerns about the security and privacy of patient medical records and the suitability of Palantir to be given access to and oversight of such sensitive material.

    NHS England has given Palantir and its partner Accenture a five-year contract to set up and operate the “federated data platform” (FDP).

    Palantir is known for working closely with intelligence agencies and military organisations around the world, such as the CIA and the Ministry of Defence.

    Thiel, a libertarian, told an Oxford Union debate in January that the NHS makes people sick and should be privatised, and that Britons’ attachment to it showed they were exhibiting “Stockholm syndrome”.

    But he also warned that the NHS’s unhappy previous history of trying to bring its huge stores of data together could mean it struggles to convince the public of the project’s potential benefits.

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    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
      4•7 months ago

      Thiel, a libertarian, told an Oxford Union debate in January that the NHS makes people sick and should be privatised, and that Britons’ attachment to it showed they were exhibiting “Stockholm syndrome”.

      Enough with privatizing stuff and billionaires owning things that are supposed to be public, look at the complete mess that is US healthcare and public transport in developing nations.

      It’s almost like these kinds of people have forgotten guillotines exist