@VictoriaCoren We have a pretty dark Only Connect & UC tradition in our household - every family member must answer at least one question per person or succumb to the cruel fate of death on the stroke of midnight. So far, we haven't lost anyone (although we did introduce 'save a struggler').
BREAKING: I have just submitted an FOI to the Home Office demanding FULL TRANSPARENCY on Palantir’s role in tomorrow’s “Brit Card” mandatory digital ID scheme 🚨
WHY THIS MATTERS: Palantir already has its surveillance tentacles deep in UK infrastructure with 24+ government contracts including:
🏥 NHS - patient data analytics
🛡️ Ministry of Defence - military intelligence
👮 Police Forces - “predictive policing” systems
🏛️ Cabinet Office - cross-govt data platform
🏘️ DLUHC - local authority surveillance
🏛️ Coventry City Council - citizen monitoring
PALANTIR’S TRACK RECORD:
•Built CIA’s tracking systems
•Created NSA mass surveillance tools
•“Predictive policing” = racial profiling algorithms
•Founded by Peter Thiel (Trump mega-donor)
•Profits from border surveillance & deportations
•Turns citizen data into surveillance gold
Given this EXTENSIVE presence across UK institutions, Palantir involvement in Brit Card is not just possible - it’s PROBABLE.
MY FOI DEMANDS ANSWERS ON:
✅ Is Palantir contracted for Brit Card technology?
✅ What’s the contract value & scope?
✅ How will our biometric/personal data be used?
✅ What surveillance capabilities are being built?
✅ Where are the privacy safeguards?
✅ Who else is profiting from this scheme?
⏰ URGENT: Starmer announces this TOMORROW
⏰ Government has 20 days to respond under FOI law
⏰ Every UK adult will be forced onto this database
This isn’t immigration control - it’s INFRASTRUCTURE for a surveillance state.
When the same company tracking CIA targets builds your “ID card” system, you’re not getting documentation - you’re getting MONITORED.
#BritCard #Palantir #DigitalSurveillance #FOI #Privacy #MassSurveillance #DigitalRights
RETWEET TO SOUND THE ALARM
Just to clarify, Farage has stated he wants an insurance-based healthcare run by the “marketplace”
This is the U.S. system
European social insurance health systems are run by not-for-profit government regulated companies not the “marketplace”
He is arguing for a U.S. system
We did not know really, back then, what a titan this man is. But what makes him great is this one thing. He actually CARES. This isn't ego. Or money. He wants to make it better
"You don't want to call it a genocide, call it a massacre, call it mass murder. whatever word you want to use, that is the reality for Palestinian people." Earlier today when Sky News tried to argue it’s not a genocide
Over 600 of us lawyers, academics & Retd. senior judges including 3 former supreme court justices, as well as the court’s former President Lady Hale, have warned @RishiSunak that his government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel https://t.co/vp58RB4gYN
@EuropeanPowell This has just turned up on my feed. Please don't give up. Thanks to you (+ Baker St Herald) people are willing to listen now.
Do we know what happened to him?