Big Data

How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Scored A Contract With NHS

July 28, 2026 Ana Vracar, BreakThrough News. Educate! Big Data, National Health Service, Palantir, Peter Thiel, United Kingdom (UK)

Health organizations are urging the British government to use an exit clause in its contract with tech firm Palantir and shift from its Federated Data Platform (FDP) in the National Health Service (NHS) in early 2027. Recent reports by Medact, Just Treatment, and other groups argue that Palantir’s system brings limited benefits at the cost of patient trust and data security – not to mention millions of pounds. The organizations called for scaling up existing NHS-led innovations in data management, avoiding vendor lock-in, and ensuring that future projects in this area are based on need and evidence. The reports thus echoed recommendations from the Health and Social Care Committee, which also advised the government to drop the agreement next year.

Data Sovereignty, Asset Manager Capitalism, And Privatization Of Economic Governance

June 12, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! Big Data, Capitalism, Data Sovereignty, Privatization

The struggle for data sovereignty is often presented as a debate over privacy, cybersecurity, or technological regulation. The stakes are far greater. Data sovereignty concerns ownership of the social commons itself. Every search query, financial transaction, medical appointment, classroom interaction, social media post, photograph, message, and geolocation record contributes to an immense reservoir of information created through ordinary human activity. This information is generated collectively. It emerges from relationships, communities, institutions, labor, culture, and daily life.

xAI Data Center Emits Plumes Of Pollution

June 14, 2025 Nick Cunningham, DeSmog. Educate! Air Pollution, Big Data, Carbon emissions, Gas, Tennessee

A massive data center at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by an environmental watchdog group. xAI quickly built an enormous data center and supercomputer at an empty factory site in Memphis last year, aimed at providing computational power for xAI’s chatbot, called Grok. Having difficulty securing enough grid power to fuel the energy-hungry data center, xAI brought in 35 portable gas turbines, and assembled them without environmental permits or pollution controls. A new video, recorded by Oil Field Witness, an environmental group, shows vast plumes of pollution coming from those gas turbines.

Religious Data Platform ‘Targets Vulnerable People’ For Recruitment To Radical Right

September 29, 2020 Deutsche Welle. Educate! Big Data, churches, Facebook, Right wing politics

Katharina Gellein: Charles was the special adviser to the UK's Select Committee on fake news that started in 2017, and I wanted to make a film about fake news. Charles was the first person to walk through the door in Parliament and sit down and say to the MPs: "Cambridge Analytica." This was when everybody was sort of at the level of, "Oh, isn't Facebook a nice thing and isn't that good?" And then of course, shortly after that, [Cambridge Analytica whistleblower] Chris Wiley came with his evidence and the whole case just blew the doors open.

Facebook Told My Followers I Was Spreading Misinformation About Government Surveillance

May 24, 2020 Evan Greer, Medium. Educate! Big Data, Censorship, Facebook, Mass Surveillance

There is no silver bullet solution that will stop the spread of online misinformation without resulting in collateral damage and censorship of legitimate content and marginalized voices. Instead of calling for more aggressive moderation, we should address the problem at its root: Big Tech companies’ underlying business model of data harvesting, micro-targeting, and artificial algorithmic amplification maximized for engagement above all else. These inherent flaws have become societal crises as a tiny handful of companies have become so large that their policies become de facto law for the entire Internet, something that can only be addressed by either breaking them up or building decentralized alternatives.

Google Secretly Harvests The Health Data Of Millions

November 30, 2019 Julienne Tveten, Truthdig.com Educate! Big Data, Google, Health Care

Google has been harvesting the health data of tens of millions of U.S. patients since 2018, unbeknownst to those patients or their doctors, as revealed by a Nov. 11 investigation by the Wall Street Journal. According to the story, Ascension, a private network of some 2,600 hospitals and other health care facilities, had been systematically feeding the medical information to Google’s cloud infrastructure in what amounts to the largest data transfer in the health care field. Google, in turn, plans to “suggest” changes to patients’ care, possibly via machine learning.

Data For Democracy Harnesses The Powers Of Big Data For Civic Good

November 6, 2018 By Patrick W. Zimmerman, Shareable.net Create! Big Data, Electoral Politics, Immigration

Data for Democracy is a grassroots community dedicated to using the tools of Data Science to create a positive social impact. Imagine a bunch of digital activists running around the Internet analyzing alt-right Twitter bot networks and collecting data on immigration and family separations for the National Immigration Law Center, and you'll have a pretty good idea what this group does. Its roughly 3,400 members include both tech experts like mathematicians, software engineers, and data scientists, as well as a wide range of social scientists: anthropologists, political scientists, lawyers, and historians.

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