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Group.png Palantir Technologies  
(Tech company) Companies House Crunchbase Powerbase Website YouTubeRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Palantir company logo.png
Formation2004
Founder• Peter Thiel.jpg Peter Thiel
• Alex Karp.jpg Alex Karp
•  Joe Lonsdale
•  Stephen Cohen (Palantir)
•  Nathan Gettings
Headquarters Palo Alto,  California
Type commercial
Staff1,500
InterestsMass surveillance2.jpg mass surveillance
Interest ofBarrett Brown
Member ofCouncil on Foreign Relations/Corporate Members, WEF/Strategic Partners
Membership•  Alexander Moore
•  Alexandra Schiff
•  Lauren Friedman Stat
•  Eric Woersching
•  Christine H. Fox
•  Carter F. Ham
• Deborah Lee James.JPG Deborah Lee James
•  William H. McRaven
•  Peter V. Neffenger
• Jeh Johnson.jpg Jeh C. Johnson
• Deborah Birx.jpg Deborah L. Birx
•  Will Hurd
•  Gustave F. Perna
•  Greg Simon
CEO Alex Karp says: "Palantir is supporting Israel in every way we can"

Palantir Technologies is a software company with a reputation for secrecy[1] which focuses on mass surveillance and data analysis. It evolved from John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness project[2] and is closely connected to the MICC; "among the list of past and current Palantir clients are the NSA, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — which directly uses its technology to fuel its controversial raids on undocument[ed] workers."[3]

Palantir specialises in AI-powered military and surveillance technology and data analytics, working with the CIA and the UK Ministry of Defence. The company has provided military and surveillance technology to the Israeli government for years, including predictive policing services used as part of the occupation to systematically harass and detain Palestinians.[4]

In November 2023, NHS England announced that Palantir Technologies UK had been awarded a £330 million contract to develop the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), a software system that is intended to make it easier to share patient information and analyse wider health trends across the health service.[5]

Activities

Palantir has been called "Silicon Valley's Most Secretive Company".[6] and the "War on Terror's Secret Weapon".[7] "Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company’s engineers and products don’t do any spying themselves; they’re more like a spy’s brain, collecting and analyzing information that’s fed in from the hands, eyes, nose, and ears. The software combs through disparate data sources—financial documents, airline reservations, cellphone records, social media postings—and searches for connections that human analysts might miss. It then presents the linkages in colorful, easy-to-interpret graphics that look like spider webs."[8]

Palantir helped create the visual mapping software for XKeyscore, an NSA hacking tool that was disclosed by Edward Snowden.[9]

Ownership

As of December 2014, Peter Thiel was Palantir's largest shareholder.[10]

Military contracts

In 2018, Palantir won a $876 million contract from the US Army.[11]

Cambridge Analytica

On 27 March 2018, whistleblower Christopher Wylie told a House of Commons select committee that Palantir had worked with Cambridge Analytica:

“That was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica, but there were Palantir staff that would come into the office and work on that data, and helped build the models we were working on.”[12]

COVID-19

In early April "The Silicon Valley company said its technology is helping officials predict the locations of outbreaks and determine where to deploy medical staff and supplies, but the initiative is testing governments’ ability to balance privacy with public health."[13] Palantir was providing COVID-19 tracking software to the CDC and NHS by April 2020 and was pitching to European health agencies. It was been awarded various contracts as a result of COVID-19, and has accessed health data from UK[14] as well as the US.

Tiberius

Palantir developed Tiberius, a platform to facilitate the rollout of vaccines.[15]The Illinois state government's COVID-19 jab plan describes it as "a vaccine allocation tool to be utilized at the state level... designed to calculate each jurisdiction’s allocation... developed by Operation Warp Speed".[16] CBS News described it as "a custom computer program that will track the whole endeavour".[17] [18]

Members

Board and Federal Advisory Board.[19][20]

Protest in London

Health Workers Shut Down Gaza War Profiteer

On 21 December 2023, hundreds of health workers and pro-Palestine demonstrators blockaded Palantir's UK headquarters in London where they accused the firm of being complicit in war crimes in the 2023 Gaza−Israel conflict.

Palantir declared solidarity with Israel via a full page NYT add on the 15th October 2023 and again a year later on X.[21]

Holding placards reading, “Palantir aids apartheid” and chanting, “Palantir – blood on your hands”, they called for the NHS contract to be cancelled. Jessica, a nurse and member of "Health Workers for a Free Palestine", said:

“It should be unthinkable for the NHS to do grubby deals with a company which is complicit in, and profiting from, Israel’s systematic destruction of healthcare facilities, resulting in the killing in Gaza of more healthcare workers in the last ten weeks than the total number killed in all countries in conflict globally last year.

“The entire purpose of the NHS is the preservation of life. As health workers we cannot turn a blind eye to the health service being implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the slaughter of our colleagues – fellow nurses, doctors, dentists, medical students and other health workers – and their patients.

“We’re here to blockade and disrupt Palantir’s blood-soaked business, and we will continue mobilising until NHS England agrees to keep our NHS data out of bloodstained hands.” [22]

Zack Palantir letter 22 Jan 26.jpg

Green Party letter

On 22 January 2026, Green Party leader Zack Polanski delivered a letter to Palantir CEO Alex Karp demanding the end of its contract with the NHS.[23]

On 5 February 2026, Polanski demanded that the UK government scraps its contracts with Palantir, amid mounting questions over Peter Mandelson’s role in securing the deals.

The US spy-tech company, which provides military technology to the Israel Defence Forces and AI-powered deportation targeting Donald Trump’s ICE units, has contracts with the UK government worth £500 million.

They are in two key industries – health and defence. Global Counsel, a lobbying firm Mandelson part-owns and co-founded, also works for Palantir.

Speaking on Newsnight, Polanski said he had written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting calling for the contract between the firm and the NHS – worth £330m – should be scrapped.

Assessing the impact of the Mandelson revelations, where it emerged that he had passed highly-sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein when he was a Labour government minister, Polanski told Newsnight:

"There are other serious consequences. Spy-tech firm Palantir was awarded a $260 million contract last month, the biggest defence budget in UK history.

"That was lobbied by Global Counsel which was Peter Mandelson's lobbying group, alongside Wes Streeting the Health Secretary, close friend of Peter Mandelson.

"I've written to the Health Secretary today to say we have to break that contract.

“It also has crucial data on our healthcare systems so the idea that this defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson is a whole range of questions that need answers urgently.”

Palantir saw its stocks slump on Wednesday, 4 February 2026, crashing by over 10%.[24]

Videos


How Palantir And Its Data-Mining Empire Became So Controversial, CNBC, September 2020



 

Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointed
Louis MosleyExecutive Vice-President2017

 

Known members

3 of the 14 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Deborah BirxWhite House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021. Broke own rules on social gathering.
Deborah Lee James30 years of senior homeland and national security bureaucratic and administrative experience in the U.S. federal government and the private sector.
Jeh JohnsonUnited States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017.

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Civil Liberty Vanishesblog post6 May 2020Craig Murray"Serious questions have to be asked about why the UK government has developed its own unique app, universally criticised for its permanent central data collection and ability to identify individuals from their unique codes. That this is overseen by NHSX CEO Matthew Gould who held all those secret meetings with Liam Fox and Adam Werritty, including with Mossad, frankly stinks."
Document:Palantir’s Military Role in Israel and BritainArticle6 October 2025Mike SmallPalantir Technologies – the surveillance company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel – has secured at least 24 contracts across key UK public institutions, and is now working with both the Israeli and the British military.
Document:The Enshittification of the Welfare StateArticle13 August 2025Michael GardinerFormally, the Welfare State is still there, and the protection of the Welfare State is paramount; in practice, the Welfare State has the emptied-out feel of the enshittified platform.
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References

  1. ↑ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7bkn/these-videos-show-how-palantir-tracks-leakers-protesters-and-prisoners
  2. ↑ "The CDC, Palantir and the AI-Healthcare Revolution"
  3. ↑ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gy4awq/how-palantirs-spy-tool-for-cops-works
  4. ↑ "Health Workers Shut Down Gaza War Profiteer"
  5. ↑ "Palantir Wins Major UK Health Contract Despite Criticism"
  6. ↑ https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/inside-palantir-silicon-valleys-most-secretive-company
  7. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-22/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon
  8. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/
  9. ↑ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peter-thiels-palantir-allegedly-helped-nsa-spy-programme-xkeyscore-new-snowden-documents-reveal-1608147
  10. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/12/11/palantir-aiming-to-raise-400-million-in-new-round/
  11. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/peter-thiel-s-palantir-wins-876-million-u-s-army-contract
  12. ↑ "Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired, whistleblower alleges"
  13. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/coronavirus-news-palantir-gives-away-data-mining-tools
  14. ↑ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/
  15. ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8868227/Palantir-working-government-track-distribution-administration-COVID-19-vaccines.html
  16. ↑ https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/vaccination-plan
  17. ↑ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/general-in-charge-of-covid-vaccine-distribution-worries-many-wont-take-it/ar-BB1aLqrf
  18. ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/12/16/covid-19-vaccine-data-supply-chain-software-immunization-registry-tiberius/3879655001/
  19. ↑ https://www.palantir.com/newsroom/press-releases/palantir-announces-its-inaugural-federal-advisory-board/
  20. ↑ https://www.palantir.com/newsroom/press-releases/palantir-announces-new-distinguished-members-to-federal-advisory-board/
  21. ↑ https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/1843383583727333511
  22. ↑ "Protesters blockade office of tech giant with NHS contract over ties to Israel"
  23. ↑ "Zack Polanski delivered a letter today to Palantir CEO Alex Karp demanding the end of its contract with the NHS"
  24. ↑ "Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski demands"
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