The same arguments were made about not removing Huawei equipment from telecoms infrastructure, yet in the end national security was considered worth the costs
There is a point at which Palantir will have crossed the line into corporate actor that is actively hostile to democratic government. In that case such a level of data access becomes a Huawei level problem
It probably already is! Palantir’s principals have already openly said they want to get into healthcare in order to harvest data and based on their MO their plan is “break the rules and then get retrospective forgiveness once they’re too entrenched to be pushed out”.
But it wasn't. The Huawei decision was motivated purely by Johnson's decision to get a trade deal with the US. The UK's security services had already green-lit their Huawei's involvement in 5G networks, as had Johnson - only to U-turn six months later after pressure from US.
They've left Huawei in the radio networks which is where 75% of the capex lies. But it's madness to have foreign actors in the core/strategic aspects. Easy to be wise after the event with US though - more difficult to predict the yanks would have become a direct threat to security.
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And MoD is filled with unsupported mission critical systems which nobody understands.
2. Buy the company.
We have a different approach in Wales, we've not federated for starters.
https://youtu.be/DZ95Gmvg_D4?si=4_jvnjMswe6UxFYs
'Kill-Chain' ((c) Palantir CEO Alex Karp)
features deployed against civilians
https://youtu.be/DZ95Gmvg_D4?si=4_jvnjMswe6UxFYs
https://bsky.app/profile/alexmaclaren.bsky.social/post/3lnczujmhz222