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Britain’s NHS allows Pallantin ‘unlimited access’ to patient data reports Reuters.

If this happens now at Britain, it may happen tomorrow at your country. In fact it seems to be a fact in Germany . A fast overview done by the National Insider summarize three examples that offers data to a bif amount of citizen data: Frontex (includes a set of european countries with an active play role in frontier surveillance and people detection), NATO members in its military information, Health Agencies durint COVID-19.

So, what it means to you? if you think this is not related with you probably you’re wrong. As a citizens we’re most ignorant that not about contracts between govements or institutions and Pallantir products. The most important issue here is not technological but easy to understand; once your data are inside Pallantir you never get out and you don’t know who elses access to uses neither what for.

Let’s assume your government share some information during COVID-19 including you. Late a bank, a health insurance, a foreign government frontier or educational institutions, may deny you to access to resources you are asking for base on health data from you that make them consider you unappropriated. A university or colledge consider you’re sick to often, a foreing countrie consider you easely exposed to transfer some virus, a health insurance evaluate you to risky to be under its services.

Once you drop a glass of water in a tank you can’t take that drop out and restore it to its source. That is what happens with our data. Nowdays your data profiles you and some else took decisions based on that data without your knowledge or consent.