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"It led to criticism from several MPs, who said that it raised yet more questions about the UK’s portfolio of contracts with the company. Palantir has built up more than £500m in contracts in Britain, including a £330m contract with the NHS, as well as deals with the police and Ministry of Defence."
#AishaDown, #RobertBooth, 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps
So now that Palantir has publicly announced its obvious textbook evil, MPs rush to performatively denounce it.
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Kia ora kiwis, how do we feel about RealMe these days? A decade ago @thomasbeagle gave a speech about RealMe, raising concerns about overzealous data collection and and data matching, and uploaded a copy here;
https://techliberty.org.nz/speech-about-realme-and-big-data/
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The Labour website policy page lists only what they've announced as flagship election policies
https://www.labour.org.nz/our-policies/
I had to dig around the site to find their full policy platform, via a link half way down their party information page;
https://www.labour.org.nz/party_info
... which links to a PDF in a Goggle Drive;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1grZhXiJNoRyoatvp2IOtnU2bu33UyvgK/view
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"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.
Don't quote me on that."
Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s
#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.