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UK Government Kicks Out Palantir

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-palantir/
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RealCodingOtaku•58m ago
Good, now let's drop the Palantir's contract with NHS.
sonu27•38m ago
This is what I thought this post was about originally
petesergeant•51m ago
I mean it’s a big reach to use that title for the actual content, but a good find nevertheless
fiftyacorn•49m ago
Id originally thought the nhs contract covered the whole UK, but the devolved governments in Scotland and Wales arent covered

I honestly feel an English assembly covering NHS wouldnt of allowed it

fmajid•38m ago
For all practical purposes Westminster is also the English Assembly, so there is no reason to believe a putative devolved English Assembly would have decided otherwise. Now, a devolved Northern English Assembly, that would be far more interesting.
fiftyacorn•22m ago
Sort of but then you have the west lothian question, about Scottish or Welsh MPs voting on English issues. For instance these MPs should never have voted on student loans
altmanaltman•47m ago
The title makes it seem like they're personally escorting Alex Karp away from the UK to his Colorado monastery.
ZiiS•40m ago
Replacing one tiny contract, on what sound like performance criteria, is not close to kicking them out.
sanjayjc•33m ago
Exactly. It wasn't obvious until I read the linked BBC article [1] that:

"Millions of pounds have been saved by replacing a Palantir IT system which helps to find homes for Ukrainian refugees with one built by its own experts"

It is noteworthy that a government department decided it could meet its requirements without a 3rd party provider. Could be the start of a trend but a wholesale move away from PLTR this isn't.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o

oldfuture•39m ago
well, I mean their goals are kind of clear https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrup...
oldfuture•37m ago
70 points in 45 minutes and not on the frontpage anymore? anyone minds to explain why?
r721•25m ago
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251
freakynit•33m ago
Palantir is not just analyzing data, but, it is increasingly wired into operational decisions like deportations, policing, health-data access, military targeting and public-sector workflows.

Tjheir "ELITE" guide says that during "special operations" normal safeguards may need to be turned off.

Palantir's Maven Smart System ha grown into a Pentagon program of record with 20,000+ active users. "Human in the loop" may become "human rubber stamp" when the number and speed of AI recommendations exceed real human review capacity.

A Palantir-backed program reportedly operated secretly from city council members, defense attorneys, and the public.

Vendor lock-in issue: once a system becomes embedded in agency workflows, switching vendors becomes politically and operationally hard and they are trying their best to achieve this. The Army's $10 billion enterprise agreement consolidating many contracts into one Palantir platform is the cleanest example of institutional dependence.

--- tldr;

The accountability chain is broken: when harm happens, the agency blames the tool, the vendor blames the customer, the operator blames policy, and the model blames the data.

---

Also, I won't share the full report link since whenever I share something like that here, I get banned/flagged for a day.

freakynit•30m ago
... Continuing with a few important numbers...

1. ICE awarded Palantir a reported $30 million contract for ImmigrationOS, described as a platform to support immigration lifecycle operations, including enforcement prioritization and self-deportation tracking.

2. Palantir’s Maven Smart System was designated a Pentagon ‘program of record’ in March 2026, with 20,000+ active military users and a contract ceiling that grew from $480 million to $1.3 billion.

3. The US Army’s $10 billion enterprise agreement consolidates 75 separate contracts into one Palantir platform.

4. The Maven Smart System has 20,000+ military users across 35+ military tools.

5. The UK NHS Federated Data Platform, valued at £330 million ($448.4 million), places Palantir at the center of England’s health-data architecture.

6. Palantir’s UK public contracts across NHS, Ministry of Defence, councils, and police forces total more than £500 million.

7. NHS England’s Data Protection Impact Assessment documents 15 inherent risks, all assessed as ‘Low’ residual risk after mitigations.

8. The NHS FDP contract was published with 417 of 586 pages redacted.

9. Palantir received more than $113 million in federal spending since Trump took office, plus a $795 million Pentagon contract.

10. Polling cited by The Guardian indicates more than two-thirds of the UK public are concerned about Palantir’s growing number of public contracts, and 40% distrust Palantir specifically regarding NHS patient data.

11. From detection to ‘prosecution’ (killing), ‘no more than two or three minutes elapse’ with Palantir systems, compared to six hours previously.

12. Palantir’s lobbying spending more than quadrupled since 2019, from $1.4 million to $5.8 million.

pu_pe•17m ago
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir*

*in one specific contract