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Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records
By Marcus Reed
PoliticsContext
The report, filed in our Politics section, was first published by The Guardian on Monday, November 9 and concerns the United States and the United Kingdom.
Background
Palantir: Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. Palantir is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, Alex Karp, and Nathan Gettings.
WhatsApp: WhatsApp Messenger, commonly known simply as WhatsApp, is an American social media, instant messaging (IM), and Voice over IP (VoIP) service accessible via desktop and mobile app. Owned by Meta Platforms, the service allows users to send text messages, voice messages, and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.
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