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Jun 9 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
🔴 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.

ft.com/content/3f6f24…
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. Image
🔴 Last July, with other privacy campaigners including @allthecitizens, tech law firm @Foxglove launched the “No Palantir in Our NHS” campaign.

You can sign our petition here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
nopalantir.org.uk
@allthecitizens first reported this story back in April, when we learned that Palantir were the suspected firm favourite for the 'Federated Data Platform'...
and also the appointment of both Joshi and Harjeet Dhalival to positions within Palantir.

But the estimated value of the contract, as @FT states, has risen to £360m, with rumours of it climbing to £1bn over 10 years.

A permanent placement within the NHS

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Jun 6
🚨NEW:

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. 🧵
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Clip from December:

How many "donors to the Labour Party" in receipt of Covid contracts can @MattHancock name, do you think?

We can name at least 15 donor-linked firms that were awarded, and a further 15 with non-financial ties to the Conservatives and government.
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Jun 1
🚨Lords standards watchdog investigates a second Tory peer - Lord Chadlington - as the director of a firm that won £50 million in Covid contracts:
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🚨Labour has called for an investigation into leaked texts that indicate there was a SECOND rule-breaking birthday party, on 19 June.

This is one that didn't make it into the Sue Gray report.
theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
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Our @receiptkeepers had previously mapped at between 17-19 alleged events (including ones that took place outside of No.10 and the Cabinet Office)

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May 25
Johnson's statement begins with him saying that "I take full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch"

Before later going on to state that the report "vindicated" him.
People reading the report can judge for themselves whether they think that's true...
Johnson's attempt to justify previous statements:

"when I came to this House and said in all sincerity that the rules and guidance had been followed at all times, it was what I believed to be true"

Says his attendance was not outside the rules - unlike one previous event...
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May 25
Here it goes. #BorisJohnson statement ongoing
The defence line seems to be still and always the same: deflecting personal responsibility.

Remember that this man is in charge of the country.

What a joke. No surprise MPs laugh at it.
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