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Re:UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are off... by rafram on Friday April 24, 2026 @10:58AM (#47891184)
Eh. I mean, the government will do what the government will do with the software it buys. We've just seen that with Anthropic. The US government wouldn't give contracts to Palantir if it seemed like its ideology didn't line up with US aims, and they wouldn't give contracts to other vendors if it seemed like their less ideological marketing meant they weren't aligned with US aims.
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Re:UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are off... by jameshart on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:21PM (#47893192)
1) we’re talking about a UK government contract with Palantir

2) actually historically, and aspirationally, the US government isn’t supposed to be focused on ideological alignment of its vendors - the current government is anomalous and we shouldn’t normalize this.

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