Privacy experts<\/a> have also raised concerns that its tools enable surveillance and analysis of everything from social media posts to driving licences and DNA swabs.<\/p>\nBut the company says its software has delivered better public services across UK organisations which include the NHS, the ministry of defence and 11 police forces. <\/p>\n
Emsou, which investigates crimes including murder, terrorism offences and drug trafficking in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire, declined to disclose how exactly it used Palantir’s technology during the pilot.<\/p>\n
But it has confirmed the trial fed data from Leicestershire Police into an operating system called Foundry that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning.<\/p>\n
Palantir provided the BBC with a number of examples of how other forces had used its software to fight crime.<\/p>\n
“This includes helping to improve the enforcement of Clare’s Law by identifying 1,000 women in Bedfordshire whose partners have a history of domestic violence in a single year,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson added it had also helped to convict a criminal gang that stole \u00a3700,000 from cash machines and helped the Metropolitan Police root out serious corruption and identify significant time savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters regularly target Palantir over Israel’s use of its technology in the Gaza conflict and opposition to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799945","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=799945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}