[HN Gopher] Palantir: NHS faces legal action over data firm cont... ___________________________________________________________________ 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... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-24 23:00 UTC)