IT Essentials: In the shadows

Secrecy is no way to run the NHS

Tom Allen
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IT Essentials: In the shadows

The UK risks farming out even more power to a private US firm

News broke this week that Palantir, the US data mining firm founded by Peter Thiel, is expected to have won the tender for the Federated Data Platform: software that will bring together vast reams ...

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