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UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network (libertyinvestigates.org.uk)
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The Nectar project offers 'advanced data analysis' using a wide range of sensitive personal information

A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information.

Documents obtained by i and Liberty Investigates show Palantir Technologies has partnered with police forces in the East of England to establish a “real-time data-sharing network” that includes the personal details of vulnerable victims, children and witnesses alongside suspects.

Trade union membership, sexual orientation and race are among the other types of personal information being processed.

The project has sparked alarm from campaigners who fear it will trample over Britons’ human rights and “facilitate dystopian predictive policing” and indiscriminate mass surveillance.

Numerous police forces have previously refused to confirm or deny their links with Palantir, citing risks to law enforcement and national security. However, forces in Bedfordshire and Leicestershire have recently confirmed working with the firm.

Liberty Investigates and i have learned that those projects involve processing data from more than a dozen UK police forces and will serve as a pilot for a potential national rollout of the tech giant’s data mining technology — which has reportedly been used by police forces in the US to predict future crimes.

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[–] chebur54@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Shut down electricity and the criminal organization (aka your government) becomes blind and deaf since neither cameras, nor microphones or AI will work. Destroy all these cameras that have been installed to monitor you. In UK guys have been doing it for years. Burn all the cameras that scan your biometric with high power laser.

Make this world brighter!!!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

We have batteries. But yeah, attacking the grid might be smart.