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NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/health-and-social-care/nhs-apologises-and-admits-palantir-engineers-have-access-to-identifiable-patient-data/
90•robin_reala•59m ago

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bananaflag•39m ago
Now the deed is done, one cannot undo it.
LtWorf•38m ago
Many years ago I had a job offer in UK and a friend who was already living there who was very keen on me moving there.

Honestly every single time there is news about UK, I am glad I didn't take the offer.

Then again, me being already not very enthusiastic about the place had a role in my decision.

gambiting•22m ago
I mean, it's all a matter of perspective and where you are coming from. Like, I could easily say that literally any piece of news coming from the US makes me not want to move there no matter how much money you pay me. But at the end of the day, it's just news. It's like that whole panic about London being the most surveiled city in the world with the most cameras per capita in the world - and of course neglecting to mention that most of these cameras are in private hands and police don't have access to them. Get your car or bike stolen in London and discover that no, the police cannot just track them street by street like in James Bond.

I literally had someone ask me the other day if it's safe to go to London. Like, to visit as a tourist. We've reached some level of absurdity that is almost comedic, but that's what news does to people.

jpfromlondon•38m ago
>In all cases they do not have permission to use the data for their own purposes

Oh, they don't have permission? probably fine then.

Oras•35m ago
Insert "this is fine" meme
andrewstuart•33m ago
Definitely fine.

All the Palantir employees have read that clause of course.

In Australia when the biggest health insurer had ALL patient records stolen, the Board of Directors immediately granted themselves very large cash bonuses (true).

jascination•38m ago
This is insanely fucked up, but also unsurprising.
numpad0•38m ago
Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why?

This is worrying as there recently was a change in the Japanese PII law, relatively unceremoniously passed and enacted, that reclassify mass PII collection including medical data collection as anonymous and consent-free with the condition that anonymization is performed after collection, which, IMO, IANAL, completely nullify the PII law. I can easily "see" Palantir behind it with my tinfoil hat on, but I'm not sure why do anyone want it in the first place. I don't think they need medical data specifically to take people to the back and dispose of the body.

gambiting•25m ago
I'm guessing because insurance companies would love to put their hands on that data, so it can be repackaged and sold off. Or Palantir can offer a model trained on it, so it's not technically selling the data itself.
kotaKat•11m ago
> Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why?

Daddy Thiel needs a bloodbank. The last one mysteriously died under the guise of a 'suicide'.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...

gambiting•31m ago
So, what is going to happen now? Someone in the UK government goes "ooops, sorry" and Palantir gets to keep access to this data? Or are we just going to have another 10 year long enquiry of how exactly this happened that leads to no consequences for anyone while US company siphons up our personal info, again?
hollow-moe•30m ago
"Whoops sorrgy! Your honor, I plead silly :3c"
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