Palantir is gutting the UK. Help us fight back
Hello Diogenes, I’m Jade-Ruyu, openDemocracy’s tech reporter. You may know me from my reporting on how Palantir is turning the NHS into a mass surveillance system, how Amazon has deep links to the UK’s competition watchdog, and what the Online Safety Act means for you. What you don’t see are the hundreds of hours of research, reporting, editing and legal scrutiny required to hold Big Tech to account. Far too often, the press reports on Big Tech as just ordinary businesses, rather than monopolies with extraordinary power. We at openDemocracy are determined to change that. We want to dig into the often cosy relationships between tech and politicians to tell the tech stories that other outlets don’t. And my work isn’t funded by anyone, except readers such as yourself. Help me show you and others how tech giants are embedding themselves in governme...