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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Should never have gotten close to a contract. Whoever greenlit it was either a complete idiot or heavily bribed.

[–] TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 hours ago

I'm gonna go out on a whim here and guess it was during the Tory government. Having said that, Palantir do seem to have a worryingly high amount of support from the current administration.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Whoever greenlit it was either a complete idiot or heavily bribed.

Sounds like Streeting.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Why not both?

[–] ODuffer@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Technofashists

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 hours ago

In Australia Palantir collects shopper data of customers in the stores of one of the three major supermarket chains: Coles.

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/economic-fairness-30a37751-ec16-4026-a076-e283f3b4092f/coles-palantir/who-s-watching-while-we-shop

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 9 points 5 hours ago

I've never been so fuck this company so fast in my life, they can go to hell and as noted below I'm not shopping at coles anymore till they get rid of them

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)