Exactly this.
Compare this 👇 section of the @voxdotcom article to which Rachel refers, with @NHSEngland's #COVID19 '#DataStore', with its stated long-term ambitions, that @medConfidential laid out for Parliament *in March 2019*:
data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
While @NHSEngland has made some stupid, dangerous mistakes ("NHS Foundry") people losing their minds over @PalantirTech's involvement is exactly what @10DowningStreet & @faculty_ai are banking on. By the time folks understand what #Foundry actually does, they'll have moved on...
...the "#dashboards" (just as in USA, still secret - not from No10 but from local #PublicHealth teams tells you all you need to know) will have been recommissioned. Made permanent, so Whitehall technocrats can tell NHS professionals (or their replacements) how to run hospitals...
...in Cummings' & Gove's delusional centralised-planning-meets-maths* DARPA-fetishistic reengineering of not just @DHSCgovuk & the NHS, but the rest of Gov't too.
Check. The. Faculty. Contracts! Palantir's. Just. A. Tool!
The sooner folks get past...
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*blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…
...their predictable prejudices (yes, Thiel's pretty scary/shady; yes, Karp's narrow framing doesn't make Palantir any less unethical) and paranoias (Foundry doesn't want to keep your data; that's not even its business model!) and focused instead on WHO is using them, and WHY...
...we might start getting somewhere.
Shouting at 'the bad people' makes you FEEL good; it rarely solves the problem.
Shouting at their chosen scapegoat actively HELPS the bad people - such distractions being part *of* the problem, to those of us who are working to fix things.
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