Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data

https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/palantir-to-be-granted-unlimited-access-to-nhs-patient-data/

by ck2 • 2 months ago

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While broad access was originally intended only for NHSE employees with security clearance, the FT reported that the briefing noted that external workers had requested the same permissions “as it is too inconvenient to apply for all of the necessary individual CDAs”.

Let's get rid of those pesky ACLs. Trust us, we know what we're doing.

t0mpr1c3• 2 months ago

Nothing to see here. Internal controls are working as they should. Everything is fine.

bobsoap• 2 months ago

This is why blind trust in any kind of entity governing your most sensitive data is misplaced. Laws and policy can be changed. Your identity cannot.

trolleski• 2 months ago

UK is done. :(

ionwake• 2 months ago

Weird story.

A few years ago, some UK doctors were warning civilians to request to their Doctor to "NOT be included in shareable data" for this reason.

That in itself was weird. Why would I have to ask for this?

So I did, only for the doctor - a normal english doctor in a nice place, to turn to me and say " I can, but you are either 'on the team' or you are not "

I was confused and I just went " I just rather my health data wasnt shared ".

The point isnt that at one point it was possible to request this, or that doctors "leaked that you could", or that finally Palantir finally got access - my point is, if you think about it, some random Doctor thought it was politically incorrect for me to request privacy from possible future sharing of private patient data with corporate interests. I cant think of any possible benefit or reason he could have had other than some authority, perhaps a gov department, or news article somehow conveyed that it was "good".

If most of the upper middle class think like this is, well then we shouldn't be surprised it got shared with Palantir.

In my later years I just think, it is weird how different people are. So no I dont think this is just idiocy or naughtiness, most people are just rather perhaps ignorant. As always though I dont know, you tell me.

solumunus• 2 months ago

I’m just totally black pilled on politics at this point. There’s just no hope.

hackable_sand• 2 months ago

You haven't completed the chain of reasoning that brought you this far.

slartybartfast62• 2 months ago

NHS data opt out https://digital.nhs.uk/services/national-data-opt-out

wslh• 2 months ago

I would say that this requires "opt in" more than "opt out".

slartybartfast62• 2 months ago

Before this decision, I supported "opt-out" as I believe the benefits of that to our community outweighed the cost. I agree now the balance has shifted.

Traubenfuchs• 2 months ago

This is high treason.

penguin_booze• 2 months ago

Not at all! Sharing data with US (a trusted ally, with whom the UK has a 'special relationship' [0]) company, run by an angelic, Ubermensch billionaire can only be good.

[0] Haters call this relationship 'being their bitch', but don't listen to them.

lschueller• 2 months ago

I'm wondering how this works in accordance to gdpr, whichh has explicit guidelines for how to process healthcare related data. This seems conflicting in different ways.

stuaxo• 2 months ago

A cynic would put this together with the plan to close all the NHSs source code: since the public wouldn't like further Palentir integration + be able to see it happening.

brokenmachine• 2 months ago

Nothing to see here. Move along citizen, before I look into your file.

Zigurd• 2 months ago

This is another way Starmer and Labour have snatched ignominious defeat to a gang of rich weirdos and New Age charlatans, from the jaws of victory. Amazing.

noashavit• 2 months ago

Wouldn’t GDPR require they opt-in rather than out?

Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data

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