Peter Thiel’s Palantir Is Given Access to U.K. Health Data on Covid-19 Patients
- Thiel-co-founded company gets contacts, race, religion info
- Data-mining company has drawn scrutiny of privacy advocates
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Britain’s National Health Service allowed secretive U.S. technology company Palantir Technologies Inc. access to sensitive personal data of patients, employees and members of the public under a deal to help it cope with the Covid-19 outbreak.
The data ranged from contact information to details of gender, race and work, and physical and mental health conditions, according to a copy of the contract struck in March and published on Friday by politics website OpenDemocracy and law firm Foxglove. It also included details of political and religious affiliation and past criminal offenses.