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UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network (libertyinvestigates.org.uk)

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The Nectar project offers 'advanced data analysis' using a wide range of sensitive personal information

A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information.

Documents obtained by i and Liberty Investigates show Palantir Technologies has partnered with police forces in the East of England to establish a “real-time data-sharing network” that includes the personal details of vulnerable victims, children and witnesses alongside suspects.

Trade union membership, sexual orientation and race are among the other types of personal information being processed.

The project has sparked alarm from campaigners who fear it will trample over Britons’ human rights and “facilitate dystopian predictive policing” and indiscriminate mass surveillance.

Numerous police forces have previously refused to confirm or deny their links with Palantir, citing risks to law enforcement and national security. However, forces in Bedfordshire and Leicestershire have recently confirmed working with the firm.

Liberty Investigates and i have learned that those projects involve processing data from more than a dozen UK police forces and will serve as a pilot for a potential national rollout of the tech giant’s data mining technology — which has reportedly been used by police forces in the US to predict future crimes.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It's called profiling, gangstalking, and creating criminals out of innocent people. Like following black people around a store, and telling them they are a thief until after years they become a thief because that's basically what the perpetrators insistently taught them to be. Business of criminal creation that creates more people for prisons because it's all more of a business and career model than for the common good.

It's literally what gangstalking is when you remove the pointless conspiracy propaganda and dumb alien bullshit from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

sweet, we'll get to see ctOS in our lifetimes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

America's march to fascism was made up of decisions like this.