The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years.
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The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
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- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
I don't know that Theil particularly cares about America, at least not its government. He's a neo-fuedalist. His fuckery is more towards advancing those aspirations than specifically providing benefit to the US government. Meaning, I think the bigger risk is less the US IC, specifically, than that Theil would happily sell one country's information to another "for the right price" if it advanced his overarching neo-feudalist goals.
...which is to say, if China or India were to offer him a neo-feudalist paradise within their borders in exchange for any given country's information β even the US's β he'd sell the target countries out in a heartbeat. -
Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over Β£800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
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@gcluley In the words of The Sisters of Mercy, "It's a small world, and it smells funny".
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The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
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@gcluley Bravo!!
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The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
1/2
@gcluley my local NHS "Trust" has signed one of those contracts with Palatir. I'm genuinely at a loss as to what healthcare option there is, if I don't want my subject data with them.
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Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over Β£800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
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@gcluley While you should never rely on another entity's decision, if other companies/countries are publicly rejecting vendors then it should raise red flags
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Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over Β£800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
2/2
@gcluley UK was always an US slave that obey it's master.
And now they don't have EU tie, they return to their Full slave yes yes decision.
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The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
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Not wanting to associate with literal nazis should be in the list of reasons
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Like the USA, politics in the UK are overly entwined with The Moneyed, white supremacy, and fossil fuel funded fascists.
The wealthy are determined to fry both democracy itself, along with the planet.
Mapped: Donald Trumpβs Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
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Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over Β£800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
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The NHS using Palantir is scary. At least it would scare me if I lived in the UK.
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Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over Β£800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
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@gcluley Carole Cadwalladr has been ringing this alarm for years, hopefully more will take up the task
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
(substack.com)
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@gcluley Carole Cadwalladr has been ringing this alarm for years, hopefully more will take up the task
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
(substack.com)
@gypsyvegan @gcluley "If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security." This applies just as much for us here in Australia.
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The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
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@gcluley So, that's why Trumpy is grumpy with Switzerland? Dissing his bosses.
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@gypsyvegan @gcluley "If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security." This applies just as much for us here in Australia.
@Ooze @gypsyvegan @gcluley
Greetings stranger.
Did you know Australia has been a US vassal for the past half century?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis -
The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
1/2
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Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over Β£800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
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@gcluley I think, youβre right.
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I Hope so.
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The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
1/2
@gcluley I wish the British government would take heed here!
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The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:
- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situationsSwiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.
1/2
@gcluley Thanks - It was 2 months ago, and for some reason I had missed it
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Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over Β£800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
2/2
@gcluley βDonβt think twice, itβs all-right!β
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@gcluley Carole Cadwalladr has been ringing this alarm for years, hopefully more will take up the task
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
(substack.com)
@gypsyvegan @gcluley
See, it is the advent of this sort of desperately poor judgement that leads folk to say Starmer is a crap PM. Iβm not sure he has any fire in his belly. He seems to do as heβs told by which ever swivel-eyed autocrat he thinks he trusts. McSweeney and Steeting come to mind for some reason.
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