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Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services by nextos on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:03AM (#46751217)
Ironically, the Danish Government is a heavy user of Palantir systems, including creepy predictive policing solutions.

I would be keen to know if citizen data is being handled correctly, following GDPR/LED.

Given previous Danish client-state-like cooperation with NSA to spy on other EU countries, I can imagine the answer.

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Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services by lostlogin on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:17AM (#46751282)
> including creepy predictive policing solutions.

Minority Report coming right up.

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Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services by anton001 on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:26AM (#46751929)
Which predictive policing solution from palantir are they using?
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Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services by nextos on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:38PM (#46756797)
Their local Palantir implementation is called POL-INTEL. This thesis presents a good critical overview [1].

[1] https://en.itu.dk/-/media/EN/Research/PhD-Programme/PhD-defe...

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Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services by izacus on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:17AM (#46751588)
GDPR has carveouts for governments and law enforcement so they can do whatever for those purposes.
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Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services by nextos on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:36PM (#46756775)
The framework is the one I referred to (EU LED). In Denmark, LED is implemented in the Danish Law Enforcement Act.

However, LED has some purpose limitations, which critics argue the Danish Law Enforcement Act has bypassed. Some are trying to challenge it.

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Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services by hexbin010 on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:05AM (#46751536)
I love how powerful the GDPR marketing was that it made people forget that there are massive exceptions for prevention of crime and for the government
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