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
Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state.
Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.
Tony Blair tried this 20 years ago. We stopped it then, and we must stop it again.
I firmly oppose the government’s plans for compulsory digital ID cards.
This is an affront to our civil liberties, and will make the lives of minorities even more difficult and dangerous.
It is excessive state interference — and must be resisted.
You know the UK justice system must be one of the finest in the world when the Met put out a press release explaining that they've had to set up a production line for prosecuting people on terrorism charges for opposing genocide.
https://t.co/NqHc2k55se
If arrests for placards were taking place in Russia and China, our media and political class would be vociferously condemning the clear authoritarianism and draconian repression.
Apparently it’s fine when it’s in Britain though.
Agreed. The tone took me right back to 2020. ‘You’re the bad guy endangering others if you don’t comply.’
Behavioural psychologists must be really pleased with themselves for discovering how well this works on large groups of people.🤨
"If you oppose the Online Safety Act, you are a paedo" is the new "if you criticise Israel's genocide, you are an antisemite" which was the new "if you oppose our wars in the Middle East, you are a terror supporter". Our rulers never stop smearing people with a conscience.
Actually, you are ok. You live in Toronto, presumably with a roof over your head and three meals a day. Many people have had bad things happen to their ancestors, including me, having a German Jewish grandfather who fled Nazi germany and a Palestinian father who grew up under Israeli occupation. But I am fine, I live in Washington DC with a roof over my head and three meals a day. You know who’s not ok? The people in Gaza being slowly starved to death after being bombed relentlessly for almost two years, after being isolated in an open air prison since 1967. The tens of thousands of child orphans and amputees. The mothers who’ve lost their children; the husbands who’ve lost their wives. The desperate, starving people being shot at while trying to get food. The people in the West Bank being driven from their homes and communities by racist, psychotic settlers, with the blessing of the Israeli and US governments. Those things are happening now. I can’t even imagine the amount of narcissism it takes to write posts about “not being ok” because the world has, for once, opened its eyes to Israel’s crimes and not accepted that the past suffering of the Jews allows the state of Israel to do whatever it wants. Go get a drink. You’re fine.
⚠️We warned about this
UK citizens are being forced to choose between handing over their most sensitive personal data to online platforms or being blocked from freely accessing the internet, as the Online Safety Act comes into force
These measures will have a catastrophic impact on privacy & freedom online. The Act needs to be urgently re-examined.
There’s a kind of horror & pain that words can’t carry—like the mother who left home today to find food for her hungry children, only to return & find the home struck & all her children killed. All of them. (1/4🧵⬇️)
Twenty years ago today police led by Cressida Dick stormed on a train and executed Jean-Charles de Menezes with impunity after mistaking him for a criminal.
No Police have ever been held accountable.
The head of CPS at the time was one Keir Starmer.
https://t.co/u6TPDefO2Q
Lammy will never be in The Hague. None of them will. The genocide will be completed, Lammy will wring his hands and no doubt end up in the Lords with a portfolio of 'consultancies'.
Lammy is an accomplice to genocide, and the state will reward him for it.
That's where we are.
The proposed “BritCard” digital ID is a civil liberties NIGHTMARE
It would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives, eroding our rights & freedoms
We’ve launched a petition against this proposal - sign and share⤵️
https://t.co/Nz0lv55n1A