“Many would prefer that NHS England invested in its own capacity, instead of farming out to private enterprise. The frontrunner for the contract to run the FDP is the US tech firm Palantir, which has performed data analytics work for the US security services, border forces and police. If you don’t know Palantir, you may be familiar with the company’s chair, Peter Thiel, a tech billionaire and Trump supporter, who has funded anti-abortion candidates and invested in anti-birth-control startups.”
‘Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not’: big tech’s plans for the NHS
