PALANTIR Stop the NHS selling your data
The short version: A UK-focused channel flags Palantir's NHS data deal as part of a broader pattern of private firms consolidating government surveillance infrastructure—one Americans should recognize.
Our Take
This video, from the channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, looks at Palantir's push into NHS patient data and what that means for a public healthcare system built on trust. It's a UK story, but the underlying dynamic is one we track closely here in the States: a single data-analytics contractor quietly becoming the connective tissue behind government systems that were never designed to be centralized in the first place.
Swap 'NHS' for 'your local police department' and the pattern looks familiar. Palantir, like Flock Safety, sells itself as infrastructure — not just a vendor but the plumbing that routes sensitive records between agencies, jurisdictions, and sometimes private partners, with little public input on retention, access, or resale. Once that plumbing is in place, oversight tends to become an afterthought, and 'who can see my data' becomes a question nobody in charge can actually answer.
That's the same reason we built our camera map — because consolidated surveillance infrastructure only gets rolled back when people know it exists. If this video's warning about data pipelines resonates, check our take-action page for ways to push back on similar ALPR data-sharing arrangements happening in your own city.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.