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By email: Dear [Redacted]
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Seacole Building 4th Floor
2 Marsham Street London
SW1P 4DF
T: 03459 33 55 77 helpline@defra.gov.uk www.gov.uk/defra
Our ref: FOI2022/25291 15 December 2022
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REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: Access or use of Palantir Technologies software
Thank you for your request for information of 1 December 2022 about access or use of Palantir Technologies software. We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Your information request and our response are set out below.
I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to ask that you please disclose to me whether or not your body uses or has access to systems sold to government built by Palantir Technologies. This request can be considered in 2 parts, for ease.
Firstly, I'd like to know if, since 2021 through to present, your body has any active contracts with Palantir, or has bought their software through a third party supplier or from crown commercial services or other such means.
Secondly, if you do not have any active contracts with Palantir, I'd like to know if 1) data from your body is used on Palantir software through another department or 2) your department has access to Palantir systems, software, or if data typically stored by yourselves is, via another contract potentially with another department, given to whichever department to be used on Palantir systems for any reason at all. I'd also like to know if the reverse of this is true - IE if you yourselves have a contract with them which has access to data from other departments, I'd like these to be listed please.
Some examples of ways in which this is being or has been done in government, for further clarity:
In a contract with the Cabinet Office, a 'data connector tool' the agreement states that Palantir's work as the supplier will be given free to any potential participating department, and then goes on to list: 'HMRC, HO, Defra, Department for Transport, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Highways England and Port Health Authorities'
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