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They claimed it was a short-term, ‘emergency’ response to the COVID crisis. In March, the UK government announced a massive NHS data deal with private tech firms. Experts warned it could involve an ‘unprecedented’ transfer of citizens’ private health information to controversial private firms like Palantir: a secretive artificial intelligence outfit founded by a Trump-backing billionaire.

During months of ensuing legal correspondence, the government assured us that this ‘COVID datastore’ would be unwound at the end of the pandemic and the data destroyed. They also assured us that any extension would go out to public tender, in which taxpayers could see and debate the issues at stake.
All of that has now turned out to be false. Today we can reveal that right as health secretary Matt Hancock was heralding the new vaccine and telling Britons life would be getting “back to normal” by Easter, his government was quietly sealing a lucrative deal with Palantir, worth up to £23 million, to run its massive health datastore for two years. The contract, awarded on 11 December, paves the way for Palantir to play a major, long-term role in the NHS beyond COVID – now, even by the government’s own admission.

It’s still not clear what precisely Palantir has been given access to: the list of NHS datasets that the firm will draw on have been redacted from the contract. What is clear, though, is that the government deliberately struck this deal on the quiet – knowing it would be controversial.
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/

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Erős Pista wrote:Dobar povid da okacim ovaj tekst

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/24/covid-crisis-privatisation-democracy-outsourcing

if these are official photos No 10 are releasing, imagine what the rejects look like pic.twitter.com/lsaJQQrYNI

— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) December 26, 2020

Mr.Pink wrote:pa noge se podizu tako valjda kad ti nije dobro, da ti se slije u mozak krv

ako ga imas uopste. nekima ni to ne pomaze

The Irish Government is to fund the Erasmus+ scheme for Northern Ireland students as the UK leaves the EU https://t.co/3ViIlo1OlC

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 26, 2020

So the EU Trade and Cooperation agreement published today mentions using an e-mail client such as "Netscape Communicator 4.x". I'm not making this up, it's on page 921. https://t.co/ERDggbIDmF

Feel free to google "Netscape", and you might realise why I find this so ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/xcpP9JU7V7

— Scott McCarthy (@MenaceF1) December 26, 2020

bemty wrote:uk ce uliti kintu u neki potpuno novi i sasvim drugaciji program koji je verovatno isto sto i erasmus samo skuplji.

Mór Thököly wrote:Turing

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bemty wrote:uk ce uliti kintu u neki potpuno novi i sasvim drugaciji program koji je verovatno isto sto i erasmus samo skuplji.

Mór Thököly wrote:Turing

Koliko sam skapirao, neće imati komponentu razmene u smeru prema UK, nego samo slanje studenata abroad i ravnomerno worldwide, pominjalo se nekih £200m lost revenues za univerzitete jer su u okviru Erasmusa primali mnogo više studenata na razmeni nego što je UK slala na kontinent.