NO PALANTIR in the NHS pushback
The short version: A UK channel highlights public pushback against Palantir's NHS data deal, a reminder that once a surveillance vendor gets a foothold, it rarely stays in its lane.
Our Take
This video, from the channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, covers the public backlash to Palantir's involvement with the UK's National Health Service — a reminder that resistance to data consolidation isn't limited to policing or borders. Credit to the creator for keeping a spotlight on how quietly these contracts move from pilot programs to permanent infrastructure, often with little public debate before the ink dries.
We cover license plate readers here, not health records, but the pattern described in this video should sound familiar to anyone tracking Flock Safety's expansion across American towns. Whether it's Palantir ingesting NHS data or Flock cameras feeding plate scans into shared law enforcement networks, the playbook is the same: a private company embeds itself in public infrastructure, promises narrow use cases, and then the data starts moving sideways into systems nobody voted on. Once that pipeline exists, walking it back gets a lot harder than preventing it in the first place.
If you want to see how much of this infrastructure has already landed in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally the way UK residents are pushing back on Palantir, our take-action page has a place to start.
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.