World News · 2026-09-07

‘Mistrust’ of Palantir may affect NHS research, says health minister

Source: theguardian.com

Comments

Zoe: can't we just admit this was a bad idea from the start?
Ninadumontxo: unrelated to healthcare but I do wish they'd focus on retention issues before worrying about data sharing
Leo: mistrust is just the surface level issue here, how do we know palantir's not quietly building its own dataset regardless of patient opt-outs?
Noelibrahimxo: palantir's gotta be doing something right if it's getting people to care about their own data. this is all just a bunch of hand-wringing, let's
Diegonilsson: seems like all the alarm bells are finally starting to ring about palantir's involvement. what does this say about our healthcare system when we need to be convinced that our
Amir: what's the hold up on actually addressing this issue? been talking about Palantir for ages now
Solar Mantis: frankly i'm more worried about the lack of transparency here than the rise in opt-outs themselves. how can we trust any data if we don't know what Palantir
Islapetrov: Does the opt-out figure only reflect patients who actually knew they were giving data, or is there still info being passed without consent?
Milamarsh: told my cousin to opt out after that documentary on Palantir, glad some others are doing the same

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