18/. Wow!
#Palantir has hired former Head of AI at NHSX & member of SAGE Indra Joshi (who left in March) as it bids for £360 million NHS Federated Data Platform
Palantir rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data & have interest in genomic data
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
19/. They’re not MAGA
They’re not QAnon
Curtis Yarvin & the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics
How does billionaire #Palantir founder, Peter Thiel, fit into the plot? #PalantirPlan #DataGrab #Genomics #ThisIsNotADrill
vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/i…
20/. Be afraid. Be very afraid!
“A pandemic & war in Europe have now conspired to shatter our collective illusions of stability & perpetual peace. #Palantir have spent nearly two decades preparing for this moment. This is our time & we intend to seize it”
thetimes.co.uk/article/palant…
21/. US data analytics, surveillance & genomics company #Palantir is gearing up to become the underlying operating system for the UK’s #NHS, poaching senior NHS officials as part of a bid to win a £360mn contract to manage the data of millions of patients
ft.com/content/3f6f24…
22/. “A firm like #Palantir has no place being the ‘operating system for the NHS’” @cori_crider
The trouble is Palantir is already doing many of the things which are going to be done by the platform
The UK media are slowly waking up to the #PalantirPlan
amp.theguardian.com/society/2022/j…
23/. Is it possible these firms & govts are really after our GENOMIC data?
In July 2020, @amnesty published this article on how Big Tech firms are obliterating the last frontier of our privacy: our biological selves
"Bio-invasive surveillance capitalism"
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
24/. “Spying on people & stealing their data [especially genomic data!] is abhorrent regardless of the nature of the govt performing or sanctioning that surveillance. Regrettably, surveillance capitalism has become a driving force in the global economy”
jacobin.com/2022/06/us-tec…
25/. #Palantir is set to become the NHS’s operating system of choice for health data, being favourite to win the contract for a new ‘Federated Data Platform’ (FDP) giving them access to GP & hospital records, social care data & genomic dat
@allthecitizens bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/how…
26/. “I don’t know exactly what Palantir wants with the NHS but I do know it’s worth keeping an eye on it. It’s certainly keeping an eye on you” @ArwaM
There are clues as to why the all-seeing data company may want to get into NHS health systems above🖕
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
27/. “It’s not through changing the culture that we’ll be able to solve social problems...but through changing people’s genes” T. Young
“Researchers don’t like the word ‘eugenics’ but they’re running ahead with the idea & UK is at the forefront” F. Nelson
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/rebranding-e…
28/. “As companies scramble to create an even more intimate marketplace of our data -one that trades in insights about our biological selves – it’s not hard to imagine the endgame”
Who is #PeterThiel & what’s the #PalantirPlan?
Some clues here. #Palantir
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/peter-thiel-…
29/. Biotech is entering a new era, with huge US govt support
Last week the US govt signed an executive order that assigned $2 billion in government funding for ‘high risk, high reward’ biotech projects such as CRISPR gene editing.
#PalantirPlan #GenomeUK unherd.com/thepost/americ…
30/. “We’re working on the assumption that the world will become more disjointed, more complicated, more unhinged”
CEO Alex Karp on #Palantir’s “not so secret-secret"
Is part of the #PalantirPlan to ensure that this happens? #Trump #Brexit #Genomics
31/. In 2015, Bannon tasked #CambridgeAnalytica’s @chrisinsilico to build a psychological warfare tool to hollow out democracy & rive open divisions in societies
It worked!
#Palantir rptdly taught Cambridge Analytica how to scrape data
#Brexit #Trump
32/. “Buying our way in!”
Leaked emails from #Palantir’s UK head, Louis Mosley, reveal their strategy to get depositories of heath data by “hoovering up” small businesses serving the NHS to “take a lot of ground & take down a lot of political resistance”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
33/. Mosley’s emails show how #Palantir planned take overs & key hires from the NHS
Suitable takeover targets were those already selling software services to the NHS
Founders would be offered a “v. generous buyout schedule (say 10x, especially if all stock),” Mosley wrote
34/. Palantir was part of a group of investors that paid $230 million to support Babylon going public in 2021, as part of a partnership between the two companies that saw Babylon migrate some of its data to #Palantir’s Foundry platform
Cummings was a consultant for Babylon
35/. Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley & former Conservative Party activist, heads what is rptdly #Palantir’s biggest office in the world
To what extent is this about genomics?
Could the UK, with its cradle-to-grave health service, be used as a Petri dish?
#PalantirPlan
36/. “Britain has become a libertarian laboratory” @WritesBright in @nytimes
“We simply do not know who is bankrolling the groups now at the heart of the British govt...Some have financial links to the oil giants BP & Exxon Mobil & big tobacco companies”
nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opi…
37/. “Freeports” are part of the deregulation strategy
“They’re vast areas that go deep inland by many miles - with a secure customs border around them
The UK is being carved up by customs borders to create worryingly deregulated areas” @mikegalsworthy
northwestbylines.co.uk/business/the-n…
38/. Palantir plans to open new UK base near to the NHS Digital HQ
Some of its 900 London-based employees will be relocated
@LordWalney hired to advise #Palantir
CEO of @NHSDigital is Simon Bolton, ex CIO of #DidoHardy’s £37bn Test & Trace service
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Yep!
An NHS project to incorporate tens of millions of personal digital medical records into a data platforms is to be launched without seeking new patient consent
#PeterThiel’s #Palantir, linked to #CambridgrAnalytica, is favourite to win the contract
theguardian.com/society/2022/n…
40/. #PeterThiel doesn’t need to build an island to have his libertarian dreamland
He can create it right here in the UK...& already is
Genomics is key
With its cradle-to-grave NHS & govt in thrall to his vision, the UK is his petri dish @MorePerfectUS
41/. “An ideology influenced by far-right eugenics is influencing the billionaires involved in the biggest technology”
@NafeezAhmed on ‘long-termism’ & ‘effective altruism’ where he name checks Palantir’s Peter Thiel, Musk, Cummings, MacAskill & Bostrom👇
bylinesupplement.com/p/the-far-righ…
42/. Yep! The future👇
In Sept 2020, #MattHancock launched a 10-year strategy, #GenomeUK, which will transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the programme for govt
Incredibly it was launched quietly (on a Saturday!) & received no media coverage
theguardian.com/science/2022/d…
43/. Most genome editing is limited to somatic cells & affect only certain tissues & aren't passed from one generation to the next
But germline genome editing could pass changes to future generations & even could even help reshape humans & our society
44/. “This deal could change the course of history” #Palantir CEO
Palantir & GardaWorld, the world's largest privately-owned security company, are merging
When they say “mass data collection & cyber surveillance for health purposes”, read “genomics”
finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-…
45/. Who’s ‘The Worst Person in Tech 2022’?
A poll by @techwontsaveus narrowed down 32 candidates to 2 billionaires: Elon Musk & #Palantir founder, Peter Thiel
#PeterThiel won!
“It was reported that Thiel considers Musk a fraud & braggart, while Musk sees Thiel as a sociopath”
46/. Not just data! Genomic data!
The govt has issued a tender for an NHS data platform which is “extremely difficult for anyone but Palantir to win”
It’s part of “a systematic erosion of civil society safeguards clearing the way for irreversible privacy losses” @JolyonMaugham
47/. British regard for the NHS is "Stockholm Syndrome" says #PeterThiel. We should "rip the whole thing from the ground & start over"
Thiel chairs #Palantir, set to win the contract for a £480 million NHS data dashboard
Health data included genomic data
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
48/. At the height of the pandemic, @MattHancock held talks to hand private medical records & #Covid test results of millions of Brits to #Palantir a US company founded by #Trump donor #PeterThiel
This thread👆plots some of the contours #PalantirPlan
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
49/. In June 2021, @g_lanktree reported in @POLITICOEurope that the UK govt had begun courting data & surveillance firm #Palantir to work on ways to tap patient data from the NHS in Jan 2019
Hancock was meeting with Palantir when he headed @CommonsDCMS!
politico.eu/article/uk-tra…
50/. How long has this been going on?
You'd be forgiven for missing it, but 2 weeks ago #Palantir posted that they've been working with @axelspringer, the largest publishing house in Europe that owns @politico @welt @BILD @InsiderIntl @BusinessInsider etc palantir.com/impact/axel-sp…
51/. “NHS England had the choice btw confidentiality for patients & secrecy for itself, & picked itself over patients” @medConfidential
US firm #Palantir are expected to win the contract for an NHS federated data platform & this parliamentary answer suggests they can hardly lose
52/. Be afraid. Be very afraid!
“This procurement is a farce & the contract winner, #Palantir, already has its feet under the table in NHS England. There is no time for a true competition given the deadline &?the complexity of the matter” @keepnhspublic
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
53/. Palantir also buys up companies that have won contracts
In a Sept 2021 email headed “Buying our way in…!” #Palantir’s Louis Mosley describes a plan to “hoover up” NHS contractors to “take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance”
doctorow.medium.com/how-palantir-w…
54/. In 2013, an attempt by the govt to get its hands on our GP data collapsed after an outcry
The lesson the govt took from that debacle is that if you want to obtain people’s health data to share with private companies, you need to do so on the quiet👇
opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/matt…
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