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We’ve won our lawsuit over Matt Hancock’s £23m NHS data deal with Palantir

And here’s what needs to happen now

We’ve won our lawsuit over Matt Hancock’s £23m NHS data deal with Palantir
Matt Hancock at a COVID press briefing in December, 2020. | Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS
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We shouldn’t have had to go to court. For a year, we’ve been fighting legal battles over the British government’s secretive NHS data deals with controversial ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir.

Today, we can announce an important victory.

Back in December, after we had spent months on legal efforts to get transparency, the government snuck through a massive £23m, two-year deal with Palantir, a CIA-backed data firm. They contracted Palantir to process our sensitive health data.