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Did you catch our thread on the expanding reach of US company Palantir into UK public institutions? £91m+ awarded to the controversial Silicon Valley data-analytics outfit across government. Let's take a look at their work with the British Police…


Between 2014-15 Palantir were 1 of 3 companies trialled by Met police to use an algorithm to consolidate crime data “subject to local interpretation” by police officers, along with PredPol and Azavea.

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This trial was before Data Protection Impact Assessment became a requirement, so it’s not known what information was processed, and it took an FOI from @NoTech4Tyrants to even reveal

In 2019, the BBC reported that at least 14 constabularies in the UK are known to have employed predictive policing software run by companies like IBM, Microsoft, PredPol, and

In the US Palantir predictive policing software has been implemented by a number of police departments, notably in New Orleans and by the LAPD, combining datasets in order to map and track criminal activity, surveilling specific people and