The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has terminated a data deal regarding adult social care with the controversial US ‘spy tech’ company Palantir following criticism from privacy campaigners.
The department published a document last month stating that it was looking for a company to migrate data on adult social care from a system designed and run by Palantir to a new in-house system.
The document said that the department “is seeking to move away from reliance on third party data analytics platforms and software” by using a system run internally but built by the British defence contractor, BAE Systems.
