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NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

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Re: NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

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Post by gambiting »

numpad0 wrote: post #6

Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why? This is worrying as there recently was a change in the Japanese PII law, relatively unceremoniously passed and enacted, that reclassify mass PII collection including medical data collection as anonymous and consent-free with the condition that anonymization is performed after collection, which, IMO, IANAL, completely nullify the PII law. I can easily "see" Palanti…

I'm guessing because insurance companies would love to put their hands on that data, so it can be repackaged and sold off. Or Palantir can offer a model trained on it, so it's not technically selling the data itself.

Re: NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

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Post by gambiting »

LtWorf wrote: post #3

Many years ago I had a job offer in UK and a friend who was already living there who was very keen on me moving there. Honestly every single time there is news about UK, I am glad I didn't take the offer. Then again, me being already not very enthusiastic about the place had a role in my decision.

I mean, it's all a matter of perspective and where you are coming from. Like, I could easily say that literally any piece of news coming from the US makes me not want to move there no matter how much money you pay me. But at the end of the day, it's just news. It's like that whole panic about London being the most surveiled city in the world with the most cameras per capita in the world - and of course neglecting to mention that most of these cameras are in private hands and police don't have access to them. Get your car or bike stolen in London and discover that no, the police cannot just track them street by street like in James Bond.

I literally had someone ask me the other day if it's safe to go to London. Like, to visit as a tourist. We've reached some level of absurdity that is almost comedic, but that's what news does to people.

Re: NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

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Post by kotaKat »

numpad0 wrote: post #6

Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why? This is worrying as there recently was a change in the Japanese PII law, relatively unceremoniously passed and enacted, that reclassify mass PII collection including medical data collection as anonymous and consent-free with the condition that anonymization is performed after collection, which, IMO, IANAL, completely nullify the PII law. I can easily "see" Palanti…

> Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why?

Daddy Thiel needs a bloodbank. The last one mysteriously died under the guise of a 'suicide'.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...

Re: NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

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Post by happymellon »

LtWorf wrote: post #3

Many years ago I had a job offer in UK and a friend who was already living there who was very keen on me moving there. Honestly every single time there is news about UK, I am glad I didn't take the offer. Then again, me being already not very enthusiastic about the place had a role in my decision.

Because Palantir have government contracts? Seriously?

You claim to be in Sweden, then you should surely know that Palantir are very much in bed with the government there including police monitoring.

Re: NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

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Post by oliwarner »

jpfromlondon wrote: post #4

>In all cases they do not have permission to use the data for their own purposes Oh, they don't have permission? probably fine then.

While I agree, permission still means something.

If they're found to have held onto it, processed it or shared it, they'll be told off very sternly and asked politely to not do it again.

Re: NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

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Post by robin_reala »

alexisread wrote: post #15

Wow this was moved fast off the frontpage! Now on page 3 after 50min. Just FYI.

I was wondering. Usually if something drops a couple of pages suddenly it’s because of the flamewar trigger: the number of comments exceeding the number of upvotes is a proxy measure for something not designed to elucidate meaningful discussion. Here, it dropped when it got to ~90 upvotes to 15 comments, so it wasn’t that trigger. Maybe as it’s a UK-specific story the concentrated geographical voting pattern triggered a voting-ring trigger?
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