{"id":22433,"date":"2026-03-23T18:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/mps-urge-uk-government-to-halt-contract-giving-palantir-fca-data-access\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:37:36","slug":"mps-urge-uk-government-to-halt-contract-giving-palantir-fca-data-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/mps-urge-uk-government-to-halt-contract-giving-palantir-fca-data-access\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs urge UK government to halt contract giving Palantir FCA data access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awarding US spy-tech company deal involving sensitive financial data is \u2018huge error of judgment\u2019, Liberal Democrats say<\/p>\n<p>MPs have urged the government to halt its latest contract with Palantir after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/22\/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data\">the Guardian revealed<\/a> that the US spy-tech company is to gain access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Conduct Authority, the watchdog for thousands of financial bodies from banks to hedge funds, has hired Palantir to apply its AI systems to two years\u2019 worth of internal intelligence data to help it tackle financial crime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/23\/mps-urge-uk-government-halt-palantir-contract-fca\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d900a83e0ec6b75557d5e66756882025241e0284\/500_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=549aa6578bb64fe44f48db5f360b7b77\" title=\"MPs urge UK government to halt contract giving Palantir FCA data access\" \/>Awarding US spy-tech company deal involving sensitive financial data is \u2018huge error of judgment\u2019, Liberal Democrats say<br \/>\nMPs have urged the government to halt its latest contract with Palantir after the Guardian revealed that the US spy-tech company is to gain access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data.<br \/>\nThe Financial Conduct Authority, the watchdog for thousands of financial bodies from banks to hedge funds, has hired Palantir to apply its AI systems to two years\u2019 worth of internal intelligence data to help it tackle financial crime. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarding US spy-tech company deal involving sensitive financial data is \u2018huge error of judgment\u2019, Liberal Democrats say MPs have urged the government to halt its latest contract with Palantir after the Guardian revealed that the US spy-tech company is to gain access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data. The Financial Conduct &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/mps-urge-uk-government-to-halt-contract-giving-palantir-fca-data-access\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MPs urge UK government to halt contract giving Palantir FCA data access<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}