Palantir- What and Who is it and why the Controversy (Русский)

Palantir has become one of the most controversial technology companies in the modern world, praised by some as a tool for national security and condemned by others as a dangerous step toward mass surveillance. Founded after 9-11, Palantir built powerful software designed to help governments, intelligence agencies, police forces and healthcare systems connect and analyze enormous amounts of data. Its supporters argue that in a world of terrorism, organized crime, cyber threats and growing global instability, technology like this is essential. They believe systems like Palantir can help save lives, prevent attacks, improve policing and modernize overstretched public services. But for many people, the fear is not what Palantir can do today, it's what this technology could become tomorrow. Across the UK, Europe and the United States, growing opposition has emerged against the company's involvement with government agencies, police forces and healthcare systems like the NHS. Critics argue that ordinary citizens are slowly surrendering their privacy without fully understanding the consequences. They fear a future where personal data, medical records, online activity, travel history, financial behavior and even social relationships can be connected, monitored and analyzed by systems far beyond public control. To opponents, this is no longer simply about fighting crime, it is about power. Who owns our data? Who decides how it is used? And what happens when governments begin relying on artificial intelligence to monitor society itself? Concerns surrounding predictive policing and behavioral surveillance have intensified the debate. Civil liberty groups warn that technologies capable of identifying patterns and predicting risk could eventually lead to a society where people are judged not only for what they have done, but for what algorithms believe they might do in the future. Supporters dismiss these fears as exaggerated, arguing that advanced technology is already embedded into modern life, and that refusing innovation could leave governments unable to tackle increasingly sophisticated threats. But the public unease continues to grow because history has shown that power, once created, rarely remains limited forever. Palantir has become a symbol of a much larger global question. How much freedom are people willing to sacrifice in exchange for security? As artificial intelligence rapidly expands into policing, healthcare, finance and government, society now stands at a crossroads. Some see safety and progress, others see the quiet arrival of a surveillance state. And perhaps the greatest concern of all is this. The technology itself may not be dangerous, but who controls it now and in the future might be. The issue of Palantir is very serious. Palantir is a global company that was established in, I think, 2003, maybe earlier, with CIA backing, and is a global logistics company that deals with processing of data, holding of information, sharing of information, processing and so on. They're very involved in Israel, they're very involved in the IDF, and we believe they're very involved also in the military attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza. They are trying to buy their way into European healthcare and insurance systems, publicly owned insurance systems, and they've been trying to get involved in the British National Health Service. I warned against this company in the general election in 2019 when I accused Boris Johnson of doing secret deals in the USA to bring American healthcare operations into Britain. He refused to answer the question and accused me of spreading Russian propaganda, and the British media believed him, not me. They now find, a few years later, that Palantir are very well involved in a lot of health organisations in Britain. They are the preferred bidder and have been paid £330 million by the health service to develop their systems, and they've got a contract which has a break clause in 2027. We are doing two thi