A crystal ball for the NHS - Palantir, a data firm loved by spooks, teams up with Britain’s health service | Britain | The Economist
▻https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/03/26/palantir-a-data-firm-loved-by-spooks-teams-up-with-britains-health-servic
The contract to help stem covid-19 will cause a stir. But if the work is done in the open, it could be a boon PALANTIR TAKES its name from crystal ball-like artefacts in the “Lord of the Rings” novels. The secretive Silicon Valley data-analysis company is used to working with governments. It carries out vital-but-dull digital plumbing for the most sensitive sorts of data—those collected by spy and security agencies. It merges datasets, cleans them and plugs holes, and provides tools which (...)
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