Palantir Contracts and Police Stalking Expose Proprietary Governance
July 8, 2026
The integration of Palantir into the UK’s NHS and the misuse of license plate readers by Florida law enforcement demonstrate how public infrastructure is being converted into tools for private surveillance and personal obsession. These incidents, alongside the UK's push for low-cost combat drones, reveal a shift where institutional accountability is bypassed by proprietary software and autonomous military hardware. As tech firms like Palantir use litigation to silence European critics, the boundary between state security and corporate bullying continues to dissolve.
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Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.
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The new technologies in the UK defence investment plan
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From Manchester to Downing Street: What Burnham could mean for Palantir
A 330 million pound NHS contract - and Palantir's wider role in UK government - hangs on Andy Burnham's next move.
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Thin-Skinned Palantir Loses Its Bid To Bully A Swiss Magazine Into Publishing Its Rebuttals To Embarrassing Reporting
Earlier this year we wrote about the ridiculous thin-skinned executives at Palantir suing a small independent Swiss online magazine, Republik, that had reported on the great lengths the company had gone to, trying to get the Swiss government to purchase Palantir’s surveillance technology. Palantir k…
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