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Palantir US tech firm lobbied UK disabilities minister on benefit fraud software
August 09, 2023
|The Guardian
The American tech firm Palantir lobbied the UK disabilities minister to adopt new technology to crack down on benefits fraud, emails released to the Guardian have revealed.
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The company wrote to the minister, Tom Pursglove to brief him on technology it had deployed elsewhere, saying that it had the potential for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to rapidly "recover large amounts of fraud".
Palantir attached a note "outlining" its thinking and told Pursglove it wanted to brief him or his officials in detail "to explore whether this capability could be of benefit in the UK".
The correspondence provides the latest insight into how the firm, which was co-founded by Peter Thiel, the Donald Trump-supporting libertarian billionaire, is seeking to expand its influence in British government.
Palantir, which grew out of a US spy organisation, is the frontrunner for a £480m NHS England contract after working for almost nothing to create data software for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. At least a dozen MPs and peers across the political spectrum have been pressing the government for more reassurances about how patient data will be treated as the data operating system is built.
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