Palantir’s expansion into health care carries more risks than we imagine

In this paper, I explore the risks of Palantir’s expansion into the health sphere using Sharon’s sphere transgressions framework as a conceptual lens and critical tool to understand and judge this move. We should anticipate the risks of no public returns, dominance, and new dependencies. While this might be true for many Big Tech actors, I add that Palantir’s expansion might be particularly pernicious. Palantir’s history reveals the perversion of logics under exclusionary politics in the sphere of security.

Traveling technology and perverted logics: conceptualizing Palantir’s expansion into health as sphere transgression - Information, Communication & Society