根据《卫报》的报道,随着对Palantir在英国国家医疗服务体系(NHS)中角色的争议加剧,已有超过4.4万人依据数据保护法律提出异议,反对他们的个人健康数据被共享、存储或用于由Palantir支持的联邦数据平台(FDP)。
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to their personal health data being shared with, stored in, or used by the Palantir-powered Federated Data Platform (FDP), amid growing controversy about the company’s role in Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), according to a report by the Guardian newspaper.
这些异议基于数据保护法律赋予的权利,要求NHS在无法提供“令人信服的理由”继续使用这些数据之前停止使用。
The coordinated campaign uses rights under data protection laws, requiring the NHS to stop using the data unless it can provide a “compelling reason” to continue.
与此同时,数十万人签署了请愿书,要求政府取消与这家美国科技公司的3.3亿英镑合同。
The campaign comes as hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions calling for the government to cancel a £330 million deal with the US technology company.
活动人士还对Palantir为以色列军方以及美国唐纳德·特朗普政府下的移民和海关执法局(ICE)工作的情况表示担忧。
Campaigners have also raised concerns about Palantir’s work for the Israeli military and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under US President Donald Trump.
两个下议院特别委员会敦促工党政府行使七年NHS合同中的终止条款,该条款将于2月生效。
Two House of Commons select committees have urged the Labour government to exercise a break clause in the seven-year NHS contract, which takes effect in February.
一位退休的IBM系统工程师David Murray表示:“我相信NHS拥有关于患者的非常准确的数据,但我希望这些数据能被用于正当的目的。
“I am a believer in the NHS having really good data on their patients, but I want it to be something you can really trust to be used for the right purposes. I am not happy about Palantir’s involvement with the IDF in Gaza and ICE in America,” said David Murray, a retired IBM systems engineer who filed an objection.
我对Palantir参与加沙的以色列国防军(IDF)和美国ICE的工作感到不满。”Palantir则称其技术有助于改善NHS的服务。
Palantir said its technology is helping improve NHS services.
该公司表示,使用FDP的医疗机构记录了11.7万例额外手术,长期住院患者的出院延迟减少了14.3%,患者在28天内收到癌症诊断结果的比例提高了5.6%。
The company said trusts using the FDP recorded 117,000 additional operations, a 14.3% reduction in discharge delays for long-stay patients and a 5.6% improvement in patients receiving cancer results within 28 days.
Palantir高管Louis Mosley将对公司NHS工作的批评称为“Palantir妄想综合症”。
Palantir executive Louis Mosley has dismissed criticism of the company’s NHS work as “Palantir derangement syndrome.”