What Could Go Wrong?

🕵️‍♂️ Who Are Palantir?

Palantir Technologies. Sounds like something out of Lord of the Rings and acts like something out of 1984.

Founded by Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who once said:
     

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Palantir was funded early on by In‑Q‑Tel, the CIA’s venture arm. They built surveillance tools for the US military. Then moved into domestic policing, ICE deportations, and now—your NHS records.

🏥 The NHS Deal

Palantir have been handed the keys to the Federated Data Platform—a £330 million system linking GP records, hospital visits, prescriptions, mental‑health notes, and more.

The spin: Better data, better outcomes. Joined‑up care. Efficiency.

The reality: Once data infrastructure exists, it gets used. Palantir don’t build things to sit idle.

💀 What Could Go Wrong?

       
• Data misuse – Medical records leaked, sold, or “repurposed” for “public safety.”
       
• Function creep – Algorithms flag at‑risk individuals, deny services or target groups.
       
• Privatisation by stealth – Your data becomes profit; your care becomes a cost centre.
       
• Surveillance expansion – Palantir already builds predictive‑policing tech. Health is just vector #2.
       
• Trust collapse – When a war‑profiteering Silicon Valley spy‑tech firm holds your therapy notes, who trusts the NHS again?
     

🔄 From Warzones to Wards

Palantir made billions tracking “insurgents.” Now they’re managing your A&E stats.

Same software. Different battlefield. Welcome to digital empire.

💸 Political Influence: Faheem Zaman & Zohran Mamdani

Meet Faheem Zaman—once a Peter Thiel Fellow. He dropped $100,000 into “New Yorkers for Lower Costs,” the Super PAC backing Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral run. That’s nearly 50% of their funding.

Mamdani ran on a **pro‑Palestinian platform** in NYC terms—not a radical revolutionary, but critical of Israeli policy, supportive of BDS, and unwilling to pledge blind allegiance to Israel .

Then came primary night. And within days, Mamdani went on MSNBC proposing an 800% boost in hate‑crime funding, specifically to protect Jewish New Yorkers afraid of rising antisemitism .

The pivot was rapid: from “I won’t bow to Zionists” to “send money and reassurances”—with the man who funded half the campaign standing behind it. This isn’t speculation. It’s all recorded and public.

🧠 Conclusion

This isn’t about data or hate crime budgets. It’s about control.

Palantir doesn’t just want to manage NHS data—they want to shape how digital authority looks in society. And the people we thought were rewriting the system? Sometimes they’re supported by the architects of that system.

What could go wrong?
Absolutely everything.

🧾 PS: Even Peter Knows

File this one under: They Know Exactly What They’re Doing.

This email from Peter Thiel, sent to Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, and Sheryl Sandberg at 2:44 AM (because of course it was), lays it bare:

In it, Thiel acknowledges that Millennials are turning against capitalism—not because they’re “entitled” or “brainwashed”—but because they’ve been systematically screwed.

“When one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable… one may well turn against [capitalism].”

He sees the system is broken. He just doesn’t want to fix it. He wants to control the fallout.

Hence Palantir. Hence NHS data. Hence everything we’ve just discussed.