The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals. Right now you can go to https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk and search for whichever bête noire has you riled up. You might want to argue that the company is corrupt, incompetent, or …
    • protist@retrofed.comEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      What does this even mean? According to this article, Palantir was selected for this contract in a rushed, no-bid process several years ago

      • nosuchanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        It means Palentir is too expensive and they’re going to continue creating their own oppressive AI based security police state surveillance system.

        They just don’t want to share their data with the US government and pay Palantir’s high cost spy system.