‘Potential security risk’: Unpacking the UK’s trust issues with Palantir
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Source: Al Jazeera
Published: 2026-05-12 17:17 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Health, Europe, Military & Defence, World News, War & Conflict, Technology
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London, United Kingdom – Trust, once lost, is hard to claw back. For Palantir Technologies, a leading defence and intelligence software firm in the United States, the trust that the company established in the United Kingdom on a one-British-pound ($1.37) National Health Service (NHS) contract during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 – which translated into a six-year relationship worth nearly 400 million pounds ($546m) – has recently eroded.
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