https://left4more.com/tags/data-ethics/Recent content in Data-Ethics on Left for MoreHugoen-usMon, 13 Apr 2026 21:38:32 +1000https://left4more.com/posts/your-medical-records-were-where-the-palantir-probl/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:38:32 +1000https://left4more.com/posts/your-medical-records-were-where-the-palantir-probl/<p>So apparently NYC hospitals have been sharing patient health data with Palantir, and they&rsquo;ve only just decided to stop. And the reaction from most people online was essentially: <em>they were doing WHAT?</em></p> <p>Yeah. That tracks.</p> <p>For those who don&rsquo;t know much about Palantir, they&rsquo;re a US data analytics company with some genuinely unsettling associations — they&rsquo;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&rsquo;s the uncomfortable reality of dealing with companies like this — the good and the bad come bundled together, and you don&rsquo;t always get to pick which parts you&rsquo;re funding or feeding.</p>