2/ Any contract signed for £1 with a privately held company whose pricing is opaque must ring alarm bells... esp where other projects have been terminated eg LAPD
3/ then there's the GIGO problem - if track and trace is shambolic, where's the data coming from - and who has access to it, and how trustworthy are their decisions? No answers from HMG...
4/ ... and the existential problem: Cummings wants to build a parallel state, unaccountable, opaque and private - and that's the philosophical implication of Thiel's 2009 essay... but little ol' you and me not allowed to ask them questions ... opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
5/ So we need maximum scrutiny - parliamentary/committee scrutiny - of the Palantir contract. Not stonewalling. opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
