The Guardian: The US company, co-founded by the Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel, used a direct WhatsApp channel to argue that “the logic of joining up primary and secondary [care] data is unarguable” and said its software was “ideal” for the job. The push came in February this year despite GP data being expressly ruled out of the scope of Palantir’s existing £330m contract with NHS England to run its federated data platform (FDP), which it says has helped cut surgery waiting times and discharge delays.
The messages – which were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Foxglove, a tech equity campaign group, and shared with the Guardian – appear to be between Palantir’s UK boss, Louis Mosley, and the former health minister Zubir Ahmed. They span several months from July 2025 to March 2026…