So apparently NYC hospitals have been sharing patient health data with Palantir, and they’ve only just decided to stop. And the reaction from most people online was essentially: they were doing WHAT?

Yeah. That tracks.

For those who don’t know much about Palantir, they’re a US data analytics company with some genuinely unsettling associations — they’ve done work for ICE, assisted with surveillance operations, and their CEO is about as MAGA as it gets. To be fair, someone in the online discussion I was reading pointed out they also do legitimately useful things like tracking missing children and tracing food contamination outbreaks. But that’s the uncomfortable reality of dealing with companies like this — the good and the bad come bundled together, and you don’t always get to pick which parts you’re funding or feeding.