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I fucking wish the UK government would do the same.
Andy Burnham (supposed incoming PM) is currently busy promising the world, and one of those is reducing their tentacles in the NHS, which would be a start.
Meanwhile the Dutch news just has a headline that NATO fully embraced Palantir’s Maven Smart System, so I wonder how true this ban is.
By that, they mean they don't want Palantir to see what is going on in those systems. Palantir has an unmodifiable blockchain to track all additions, changes and modifications, and deletions and by whom. No way to cheat. In many ways, Palantir is so much safer than any other system. But my guess is there are things they don't want the Trump DSI/NSA/CIA/Military Intelligence to see.
> unmodifiable blockchain

Ahhh, this old trope. Fork it - trivial to do when you have consensus.

> But my guess is there are things they don't want the Trump DSI/NSA/CIA/Military Intelligence to see.

You don't have to guess, that's exactly what the headline says: "...over fears of national security leaks". And several times in the body of the article.

Correct. Why should any country want its sensitive government data to be visible to other countries, and to Trumps government at that?

Why doesn't the Trump admin open up it's data to inspection by European, Chinese, Russian etc auditors? What does it have to fear?

Palantir should be completely banned from any EU government contracts. We cannot keep handing over our most core systems and data to non-EU entities, especially given the US’s adversarial stance towards EU.
Ideally European countries would ban all US tech companies and actually invest in home grown solutions. Already some good pro open source policies. Just take it a step further and take a stance on digital sovereignty
Totally appropriate. Their C-suite seem like psychopaths.