Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data

Yes and it is possible Palantir might be the most blatantly dangerous - and that isn't underestimating the others

Yes, but that's not a new thing they've been twisting their tendrils around government datasets since before the begining of this decade. The reason government was so eager to jump on is because they offered to do it for free.99. The play being that they get the government dependent on their product to function. Rory Stewart recently opened up about when they approached his department at the time he was still in government. Believe that was the prisons service.

I don't think it would matter in NHS case. NHS is part of UK, not part of EU.

Even though headline says Europe, the article is about new regulations that European Commission (EU) is planning. It doesn't include UK.

Well the article is actually referring to steps taken by the EU, an organization the UK is no longer a member of. I agree that the EU should also be barring Palantir, but doing so would currently have no great effect on what happens in the UK.

This is about the EU, so maybe the NHS will have to sever ties in a couple of years when or if the UK rejoins.

That's the UK, the article in question is about the EU

UK left the EU. That's their problem. 

The UK is not part of the EU.

UK is not a neigbor, it's an ex-roomate who left. They have their own agendas. Russia, Africa are closer to mainland Europe than the UK is in terms of actual distance but that doesn't mean EU will do what they are doing. If EU does it it's his own fuckup with full blame.

not the EU, tho

…to f*** your wallet for needless things!

Same as continental drift, you ain't even seeing it happening

Both are rising

> What changed is that palantir employees will be granted admin rights to the core system instead of having to request it each time No, what changed is that they will now, when needed, get broader access (ie admin) instead of case-by-case access. 

Yeah... Good they left the EU lol. Imagine having that bridge inside. Would be akin to a trojan horse...

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Your not clarifying but rather trying to shift the blame. The current government has chosen to expand these contracts with 0 alternative bids. Thus they have become culpable for the harm and risk involved just as much as the Tories. They are also expending the surveillance powers of the Online Safety Act and thus get the blame for that decision too.

Are you kidding ? Half of the Morons will be duped into believing it’s a good thing.

I’m well aware of that.

All of those combined have less Market share in Europe than AWS.

Cloud providers, sure, but AWS/GCP/Azure has way more services and/or products attached for development, security and more

To clarify on this good point: The required move is a massive technical leap. The vast majorirt iof government/corporations largely rely heavily on Microsoft, Google or Amazon. 99.9%.

Yeah, but imagine the outcry if those were Chinese cloud providers instead. EU worries about being dependent on China when they are 100 times more depedent on US. Pure stupidity.

The police is really eager to implement it though. Some States in Germany have already implemented it, others want it really bad.

It's of high urgency right now.. The European markets/public are more receptive to government involvement and regulations then places like the US.

It wouldn’t impact Palantir from what I understand. The policy is directed at cloud providers. As far as I am aware Palantir software can be installed on self hosted servers.

Whats your point? For example german police is starting to use it and feeds it sensitive information. Is Germany not part of the EU?

Do people seriously not remember Brexit?

To unlock whats up here one detail, digital services are a large chunk of US external trade surplus specially to its single most important foreign market, which is Europe (30% of all US digital service business). So the move is not just some challenge about data safety or privacy laws, it has potential to redirect €180bn / year (data [https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2026/number/1/article/services-at-the-core-the-missing-piece-of-transatlantic-trade-talks.html](https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2026/number/1/article/services-at-the-core-the-missing-piece-of-transatlantic-trade-talks.html) ). just to compare, yearly US-EU service trade is worth $501 billion. And \~ 78% of that is digital services, that should give a hint how severe the situation can become, reciprocal intentions would only manifest a possible impact. If that is good or bad, you can judge yourself. looking ahead, that means other countries might turn to other services as well and voilà competition makes more fun again. (nothing to see here, business as usual)

The Eurobots will downvote you. I hate Trump with ever fiber of my being, but I think he’s right about leaving the EU to itself. Let them spend their money on defense.

Tell that to the headline writer.

UK == Europe; Read the headline Hickle

Yes. That’s why my comment says ‘and the Uk is’