Thread by @Foxglovelegal

🚨🚨🚨NEW: we've suing the gov't over the half-a-billion pound NHS Federated Data Platform with our amazing partners at @JustTreatment, @TheDA_UK & @NPCUK.

It looks like the #GPDataGrab on steroids + gov’t is refusing to reveal the details. Read more: thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…

If you’re worried about the Federated Data Platform too, use our tool to quickly write to your MP and ask them to kick the tyres of this deal – urgently: foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/dont…

We've asked gov't for answers for months but we *still* don’t know:

What data will be collected,
How it will be used,
Who will have access,
And most important: how will it be protected?

@PalantirTech are favourites for the £480m deal – so this is urgent.

The scope of the Federated Data Platform looks HUGE.

Cradle-to-grave health records of every NHS patient: GP data, hospital records, social care – everything.

Patients deserve to know the answers to these questions – and how to opt out if they don’t like them.

Everyone who depends on the NHS should be deeply concerned that Peter Thiel (fresh off sparking the Silicon Valley Bank collapse) and Palantir look to have this deal sewn up.

Why? Here’s the details on Palantir & Thiel’s grim track record: nopalantir.org.uk

We wanted to put our Qs to Palantir’s @louismosley at #Rewired2023 – but Louis went No Show-sley.

Instead, it will be @cori_crider, @marcus_baw & @jhoeksma trying to find the answers – in 15 minutes.

There's still time Louis! Otherwise we've got a special guest prepared... 👀