US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract

Medical and legal rights campaigners are warning that the Palantir data platform, designed to be at the heart of England's health system, risks enabling UK immigration and policing departments to access confidential patient information.

Palantir has denied the Federated Data Platform (FDP) could be used in this way under the current legislation, and said using the system as the campaign groups described would breach its contract with NHS England.

The report that made the claim is written by medical campaign group Medact and endorsed by legal campaigner the Good Law Project, Privacy International, Just Treatment, Corporate Watch, United Tech, Allied Workers Union, and is supported by Amnesty International.

It argues the FDP contract, awarded to Palantir for £330 million in November 2023 for seven years, could, by bringing together disparate health datasets onto a single platform run by Palantir, enable UK government departments to move sensitive information around.

"The ...