Palantir

Palantir's Covid-era UK health contract extended without competition

US spy-tech firm's controversial work with patient data pushed out 6 months due to delayed data platform procurement

Databases04 Jan 2023 | 39

Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info

Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win'

PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57

Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust

'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly'

Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 30

UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform

Does spy-tech supplier have a head start in bidding for the controversial deal it considers a 'must win'?

Databases21 Nov 2022 | 37

UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent

'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down

Databases04 Nov 2022 | 99

NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time

Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed

Databases15 Sep 2022 | 29

UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners

Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130

UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing country's COVID data store

Over a year after discussions began, National Data Guardian continues to pursue transparency in health data use

Security14 Jun 2022 | 6

Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail

Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution

Databases13 Jun 2022 | 43

Palantir summons specter of nuclear conflict as share price collapses

Is spy-tech outfit trying to distract from underperforming results?

Software10 May 2022 | 47

Palantir expands from Covid role, wins $90m deal with US Department of Health

Controversial analytics company sees expansion into healthcare continuing

Software05 May 2022 | 6

Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir

Move coincides with NHS England's procurement of a far-reaching data platform

AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 21

UK aims for 'openness and fairness' in its AI Strategy – unless we're talking about favoured contractors

Or the government itself, of course

AI + ML11 Nov 2021 | 12

NHS England's release of 'details' on access to Palantir COVID-19 data store: Good enough? We're in a 'dialogue' says national data watchdog

Critics, meanwhile, voice incredulity over how little data has been shared

Databases31 Aug 2021 | 17

Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store

Updated 18 months after controversial project began, non-departmental public body finally gives up the goods

Databases18 Aug 2021 | 70

Palantir abandons any attempt at curating nice-guy image with 'Global Information Dominance Experiments'

COO also talks of recruiting and irradiating the next David Banners of the tech world

AI + ML13 Aug 2021 | 26

In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?

Palantir potentially in line for £50m contract with Brit maritime force

Databases23 Jul 2021 | 12

NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store

Foundry platform lacks transparency and accountability, sources tell El Reg

Databases05 Jul 2021 | 49

Of all the analytics firms in the world, why is Palantir getting its claws into UK health data?

Comment Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee asked health secretary Matt Hancock, but he wasn't much help

Databases15 Jun 2021 | 48

Palantir co-founder, CEO Alexander Karp gets $1.1bn bumper payday in IPO year

Sometimes the love of ICE and UK.gov is not enough

AI + ML30 Apr 2021 | 8

Anyone for Palantir? UK.gov names gaggle of vendors to fight for contracts in £1.2bn back office application framework

It's time to crack open the public sector pork barrel.... like it was ever closed

Applications21 Apr 2021 | 7

Under threat of judicial review, UK.gov agrees to consultation before extending Palantir's NHS role beyond pandemic

Updated A small victory, but campaigners say they will be keeping a close eye

AI + ML30 Mar 2021 | 17

Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir

Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party

AI + ML24 Feb 2021 | 14

NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir

Legal challenges? Scrutiny? Ah, never mind those

Legal21 Dec 2020 | 39

How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit? Let's call Peter Thiel! AI biz Palantir – you're hired

Oh, and Smart Freight System software in beta by April... will be used from December. WCGW?

AI + ML17 Sep 2020 | 76

Palantir: Never made a profit, we do something with family-separating ICE, we just lost $580m – please join our IPO

S-1 filing slams Silicon Valley as the real privacy-invading spies, too

AI + ML26 Aug 2020 | 15

Open letter from digital rights groups to UK health secretary questions big tech's role in NHS COVID-19 data store

Promises of transparency about handling of citizens' health data haven't been fulfilled – campaigners

Security19 May 2020 | 14

Data-slurping biz Palantir scoops US Army contract worth up to $800m – reports

Peter Thiel's firm said to have won face-off against Raytheon

Software28 Mar 2019 | 6

Peter Thiel's Palantir reportedly eyeing up $41bn IPO

Spies' fave data mining biz could go public as early as late 2019 – reports

Software19 Oct 2018 | 8

Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale

Was your anti-surveillance letter sinkholed? Write a blog about it

Science19 Oct 2018 | 19

Valley techies to protest outside Palantir – Trump adviser's creepy citizen database biz

Thiel's upstart has the info needed for a Muslim registry

Databases17 Jan 2017 | 36

US Labor Dept accuses CIA-backed Palantir of discriminating against Asian engineers

Good ol' boys' club gives jobs to good ol' boys, lawsuit says

Legal27 Sep 2016 | 27

CIA-backed big data firm Palantir says secrets pinched by investor

Accuses advisor of 'brazen scheme to claim highly confidential secrets as his own'

Legal07 Sep 2016 | 8

Big Brother's pet unicorn Palantir closes the Kimono

Got data at kimonolabs.com? Not for long, you don't

Software16 Feb 2016 | 15

Palantir raises $450m in latest fund-raising round

Big Brother software outfit is the toast of Silicon Valley

Security24 Jul 2015 | 4

CIA-funded spy data safe Palantir doubles in value in 18 months

Good times in spookland as biz gains $20bn valuation for latest funding round

On-Prem24 Jun 2015 | 11

Who earns '$7k a month' but can't even legally drink? A tech intern!

Glassdoor reveals astonishing salaries of Silicon Valley undergrads

On-Prem28 Feb 2014 | 25

Big Brother's software firm Palantir valued at $9 BEEELION

CIA-funded data slurper gets $60m in filthy valley lucre

On-Prem06 Dec 2013 | 15