Is Palantir in the UK Good or Bad?

[Al Gorithum]

I see that Andy Burnham intends to kick Palantir out of UK Govt systems.

Prima facia sounds good to me as the current US Administration and chums are completely corrupt so we should divorced from those clowns.

However, what could possibly go wrong?

[No ideas for a name]

Off shoring your (or your population's - if you are a country) data is dumb.
Gathering that data and using it (for good or bad) internally is a different matter.

Governments - like individuals - fall for the oh it make things easy - trap. But once the data is gone, it is gone.

[Super Sonic]

Poll makes no sense. Question - is Palantir good or bad.
Answers - yes or no.
Yes it is good or bad,
No it isn't good or bad.

[bigandclever]

Most ambiguous poll evah.

[JoshSm]

I'd boot Palatir because their product is a bit of a joke and it's run by some proper loons who I wouldnt trust with a bus timetable, not because of the US immigration or the Israeli military stuff some are pushing as Burnham's reason to dump them.

If that stuff really was their justification it shows their slightly pathetic 6th form level of thinking.

[hidetheelephants]

That Palantir were given massive contracts to shuffle data without any competition is corrupt, there's no way issuing a contract for data shuffling can be regarded as an emergency and that's about the only justification for no-bid proceedings. The contracts should be ended as soon as competition can identify the best bidders to take the roles on and the circumstances of the contract awards investigated for criminality. It's not like there's any shortage of identikit tech bros droning on about how their data shuffling is better than brand X's, so there should be no difficulty attracting bids.

[finlo]

Thought this was about that shampoo for balding women!

[Mars]

Super Sonic said:

Poll makes no sense. Question - is Palantir good or bad.
Answers - yes or no.
Yes it is good or bad,
No it isn't good or bad.

Agreed. And the results seem to show there is confusion.

[hidetheelephants]

finlo said:

Thought this was about that shampoo for balding women!

JRR Tolkien Marketing Inc. said:

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[tangerine_sedge]

JoshSm said:

I'd boot Palatir because their product is a bit of a joke and it's run by some proper loons who I wouldnt trust with a bus timetable, not because of the US immigration or the Israeli military stuff some are pushing as Burnham's reason to dump them.

If that stuff really was their justification it shows their slightly pathetic 6th form level of thinking.

Palantir is expensive and there are cheaper & better alternatives. Palantir of course spend a lot of time and money securing contracts by employing decision makers shortly after they've made decisions (IYKWIM).

[iphonedyou]

Don’t think OP has thought through the poll responses.

[snuffy]

Here's my prediction:

It will never happen.

[ashenfie]

From someone who actually uses Palantir. The product is fine and does the job. The real issue the pool of knowledgeable IT professionals is tiny. An expensive unicorn.

[Garvin]

Is Palantir good for the UK. Probably not.

Has Palantir been good for me personally. You bet. Made me 150% gain on investment in 10 months! Thanks Nancy Pelosi!

[MightyBadger]

Super Sonic said:

Poll makes no sense. Question - is Palantir good or bad.
Answers - yes or no.
Yes it is good or bad,
No it isn't good or bad.

Poll fail

[JagLover]

JoshSm said:

I'd boot Palatir because their product is a bit of a joke and it's run by some proper loons who I wouldnt trust with a bus timetable, not because of the US immigration or the Israeli military stuff some are pushing as Burnham's reason to dump them.

If that stuff really was their justification it shows their slightly pathetic 6th form level of thinking.

This basically

The discussion should be around their activities in the UK, how well they do and how secure the data is held and how it is used, anything else seems fairly childish Bluesky stuff.

[iphonedyou]

What is Bluesky stuff?

[.:ian:.]

They are charging companies to provide a service, but ingesting huge amounts of data they can use to train their AI. I'm sure the services provided are good, but they seem to skirting quite close to morally unethical practises.

Will they become an IRL Cyberdyne Systems? Its a possibility.

[DeejRC]

It’s neither good nor bad.
What their service or product is being replaced with should be the important bit of the question. I have zero idea of that answer, so rather than or before worrying about Palantir being kicked out is good or bad, I want to know what is coming in instead. I presume someone better informed than me on this topic has an idea?