Anonymous Ministry of Defence sources warned that US-based Palantir Technologies, which holds hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses a national security threat by aggregating government data to build its own intelligence profiles on Britain's population and infrastructure. The insiders argue that while the UK technically owns the underlying data, Palantir can extract and exploit metadata to infer classified information, such as combining unclassified details to determine military locations.
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Anonymous Ministry of Defence sources warned that US-based Palantir Technologies, which holds hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses a national security threat by aggregating government data to build its own intelligence profiles on Britain's population and infrastructure. The insiders argue that while the UK technically owns the underlying data, Palantir can extract and exploit metadata to infer classified information, such as combining unclassified details to determine military locations.