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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Having awarded a major contract to (controversial) data firm Palantir, a growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work with the firm's tools for ethical reasons, with wider passive resistance to its deployment.

One manger said: 'People are saying, ‘I refuse to work on this software. You have to find something else for me to do’... They’re calling it a workplace adjustment. [as] if you were disabled & needed a different desk, they’re literally treating it like that'! 

#NHS #Palantir
h/t FT
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Cy · 4w
National Health Service...?
Nini · 4w
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Patrick Leavy · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4mstcx9tq you can crank up the pressure on the uk gov by signing this open letter to the uk government to cancel the #Palantir #NHS contract: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/wes-streeting-...
Patrick Leavy · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4mstcx9tq and while we're rejecting #Palantir why not cut to the source of most problems: our behavioural data being harvested by #BigTech I set up a non-profit, the Rebel Tech Alliance, to show...