A broad-based campaign group has written to UK health secretary Matt Hancock calling for greater openness in the government's embrace of private-sector tech companies contracted to provide a data store and dashboards as part of the NHS response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
In March, the government said it would develop a data platform designed to provide "secure, reliable and timely data" to national organisations charged with coordinating the response to the pandemic.
Along with the triumvirate of dominant cloud service providers – Amazon, Google, Microsoft – the government contracted Palantir Technologies UK, a subsidy of Peter Thiel's controversial analytics firm, and the London AI company Faculty, which worked on the ..
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