Pluralistic: Palantir’s NHS-stealing Big Lie (08 Mar 2024)
▻https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/08/the-fire-of-orodruin/#are-we-the-baddies
Right now, there’s an attempt underway to loot the NHS, the UK’s single most beloved institution. The NHS has been under sustained assault for decades – budget cuts, overt and stealth privatisation, etc. But one of its crown jewels has been stubbournly resistant to being auctioned off: patient data. Not that HMG hasn’t repeatedly tried to flog patient data – it’s just that the public won’t stand for it: