{
  "id": 10325,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/palantir-british-state-political-access-us-tech-firm-nhs",
  "title": "I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan",
  "summary": "Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves Andy Burnham faces a lot of big decisions . But one of the incoming prime minister’s biggest early tests is what he does about the world’s “ scariest company ” – Palantir. The US defence and surveillance tech behemoth has a swathe of British public contracts, including, most controversially, a £330m deal with the NHS . It’s pretty clear what man",
  "authors": "Peter Geoghegan",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,military-security,finance-investment",
  "orgs": "palantir",
  "regions": "uk",
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T04:00:45.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-15T05:10:55.633Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10325",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/palantir-british-state-political-access-us-tech-firm-nhs",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}