🔴 US data analytics group #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 across England.
The secretive company, co-founded by Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook and prominent supporter of former US president Donald Trump, is now manoeuvring to expand its reach into the #NHS over the next decade.
🔴 Last July, with other privacy campaigners including @allthecitizens, tech law firm @Foxglove launched the “No Palantir in Our NHS” campaign.
@allthecitizens first reported this story back in April, when we learned that Palantir were the suspected firm favourite for the 'Federated Data Platform'...
The Labour Party are still refusing - nearly eight months on - to answer Subject Access Requests from party members about what information was lost during a massive data breach back in October last year. 🧵 @allthecitizens / @TheEyeballsEN / @BylineTimes
Following news of a data breach affecting the Labour party, in which a ‘significant quantity of party data’ was rendered ‘inaccessible’, @allthecitizens can confirm that members still haven’t had their requests for information answered by the party.
In a press release following the attack, Labour announced that the data affected included ‘information provided to the Party by its members, registered and affiliated supporters, and other individuals who have provided their information’ labour.org.uk/about-your-dat…
🚨Lords standards watchdog investigates a second Tory peer - Lord Chadlington - as the director of a firm that won £50 million in Covid contracts: theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
Chadlington recommended firm SG Recruitment to the government.
Lord Feldman, a fellow Conservative peer working for DHSC as an unpaid advisor, referred SG through the now-infamous "VIP lane", which fast-tracked referrals from the offices of ministers:
He's the 2nd Tory peer facing investigation for potential rule breaches involving the VIP lane, following an investigation launched against Baroness Mone.
Mone originally denied any involvement in another company, PPE Medpro, behind £200m in contracts:
The report itself focused on 8 events, during which 83 people received 126 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs), and included details of raucous consumption, altercations, and abuse of cleaning staff: