{"id":555365,"date":"2026-04-28T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:56:08","slug":"met-police-federation-criticises-intrusive-use-of-palantir-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555365\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police Federation criticises ‘intrusive’ use of Palantir AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rollout of Palantir follows a wider programme to improve culture in the Met after the BBC Panorama investigation Undercover in the Police,<\/a> which exposed toxic behaviours at Charing Cross police station.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said: “This is the Met using technology, data and stronger legal powers to confront poor behaviour, raise standards and fix our foundations as our communities would expect.”<\/p>\n

Palantir is now widely used across the UK public sector, holding major contracts with the NHS, Ministry of Defence, police forces and financial regulators, and significantly expanding its UK presence. <\/p>\n

However, the company has faced backlash over its role in the public sector, with Labour MP Emily Darlington telling the BBC earlier this month<\/a> that a “foreign tech company” handling NHS patient data represented “a major security risk”.<\/p>\n

Mayor Sadiq Khan said he had no role in approving the contract between the Met and Palantir as it fell below the \u00a3500,000 scrutiny threshold.<\/p>\n

However, a spokesperson for the mayor added: “As a general point the mayor would have concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values.”<\/p>\n

The Police Federation said it is now considering legal action over the implementation of Palantir, accusing the force of undermining officers’ right to a private life under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, as well as GDPR protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rollout of Palantir follows a wider programme to improve culture in the Met after the BBC Panorama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-555365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}