[HN Gopher] Palantir: NHS faces legal action over data firm cont...
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       Palantir: NHS faces legal action over data firm contract
        
       Author : alexrustic
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-02-24 22:07 UTC (52 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | readams wrote:
       | Sounds like a nuisance lawsuit over a minor technical issue
       | involving filling a report. No wrongdoing seems to be even
       | alleged, other than Palantir being a tech firm and therefore
       | evil.
        
         | HugoDresden wrote:
         | Now now, Palantir are perfectly capable of simultaneously being
         | a tech firm _and_ being evil, no therefore required.
        
       | TaupeRanger wrote:
       | This anonymized data is basically nothing compared to what every
       | social media company has on much larger populations. Smoke but no
       | flame.
        
         | McDev wrote:
         | This is our NHS, not a social media company. You can't compare
         | the two.
        
       | jrsj wrote:
       | Anyone else find it a little disturbing that the guy that runs
       | Palantir in the UK is Oswald Mosley's grandson?
        
       | turnerc wrote:
       | It's worth nothing that the Datastore in question has undergone a
       | Data Protection Impact assessment[1] which states that this
       | information given to Palantir will be in anonymised form and even
       | aggregated.
       | 
       | In fact its non-anonymised data never hits the "Datastore"
       | (Palantir Foundry) or leaves NHS Systems.
       | 
       | Morally sketchy extension to the contract? Yes. Illegal? No.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-
       | content/uploads/2020/06/202004...
        
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