{"id":6071,"date":"2022-06-21T06:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T06:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:37:34","slug":"palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir: concerns over data firm poised to be \u2018operating system\u2019 of NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company co-founded by Silicon Valley\u2019s Peter Thiel has been criticised for US defence and immigration contracts<\/p>\n<p>For a company tipped to provide the NHS\u2019s new overarching data platform, it is appropriate that Palantir Technologies is named after an all-seeing orb.<\/p>\n<p>Palantir, which draws its name from the powerful crystal balls deployed in JRR Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings, is the favourite to win a \u00a3360m contract for the NHS\u2019s Federated Data Platform (FDP). Covering everything from individual patients\u2019 data to vaccination programmes, waiting lists and medical trials, the FDP will aggregate data from multiple sources and different formats on to a single platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/jun\/21\/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/937d29e4bb8d09b56f01f189a957c283c44d2ee6\/0_238_5810_3487\/master\/5810.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d183674875da0a38b289ae4ecd13c750\" title=\"Palantir: concerns over data firm poised to be \u2018operating system\u2019 of NHS\" \/>Company co-founded by Silicon Valley\u2019s Peter Thiel has been criticised for US defence and immigration contracts<br \/>\nFor a company tipped to provide the NHS\u2019s new overarching data platform, it is appropriate that Palantir Technologies is named after an all-seeing orb.<br \/>\nPalantir, which draws its name from the powerful crystal balls deployed in JRR Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings, is the favourite to win a \u00a3360m contract for the NHS\u2019s Federated Data Platform (FDP). Covering everything from individual patients\u2019 data to vaccination programmes, waiting lists and medical trials, the FDP will aggregate data from multiple sources and different formats on to a single platform. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company co-founded by Silicon Valley\u2019s Peter Thiel has been criticised for US defence and immigration contracts For a company tipped to provide the NHS\u2019s new overarching data platform, it is appropriate that Palantir Technologies is named after an all-seeing orb. Palantir, which draws its name from the powerful crystal balls deployed in JRR Tolkien\u2019s The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palantir: concerns over data firm poised to be \u2018operating system\u2019 of NHS<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6072,"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\/6071"}],"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=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}