But hey, the UK are cool with Palantir.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Australia here. Us too, even our supermarkets.
Fuck 'em. I'm gonna render their surveillance useless.
I buy Quilton Toilet Paper because it loves my bum, and I'm not ashamed to admit it!
Coles is your target. I don’t think the others are using them yet.
Sweden as well...
Switzerland isn't. Palantir even sued the Swiss newspaper that reported on it.
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But what about Palantir?
I feel for that poor, struggling startup. And their cute little CEO is just so earnest!
+5 Freedom Points™ have been issued to your account.
The idea is to ban foreign providers. So Palantir would be included.
I sure hope so. Sweden has been cozying up Thiel during this last four year term. It looks line this government is falling in the upcoming election, but I have no faith that the opposition will change anything there...
The police and such have been in deep with Palantir since long before this current government. They get excused, because it wasn't as well-known at that time how evil they are... but yeah, I really doubt that the next government would do anything different either.
PALANTIR is being peddled to several EU countries as a mass surveillance AI, and there seems to be little resistance from the governments. right wing govts would love to moniter ANTIFA dissidents.
But not Palantir.
The list was just to demonstrate the effects, yes it affects also Palantir. It would likely be very illegal to make legislation that affects only a selected few companies.
The EC insider sources told CNBC that the TSP could include a significant limitation for foreign cloud corporations when it comes to managing sensitive data.
To put it simply, US cloud giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could be restricted in their ability to process specific data types on behalf of public organizations, including financial, judicial, and health-related data.
Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. We both know morals is rarely why any government does anything.
I'm gonna go ahead and be first to say that palantir is not good. All the government partnerships with them clearly violate GDPR and the AI framework.
Like, it's good progress that the EU is talking about US companies now, but Palantir should 100% be mentioned in the same breath. At the least because many EU citizens aren't even aware that Palantir exists.
Hopefully this new law will also apply to Palantir partnerships
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I really hope Canada follows suit, after Microsoft pulled that shit with the international criminal court they clearly cannot be trusted.
I hope so too.
The Ontario government is welcoming a multi-billion-dollar investment from Microsoft, as part of the company’s previously announced $19 billion commitment to Canada. Through this investment, Microsoft is expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure across Ontario, significantly scaling up the province’s computing capability while reinforcing Ontario’s position as a leader in the tech and digital economy. [...]
This expansion in Ontario will further bolster the reliability of its data infrastructure to strengthen the province’s domestic data capacity as more businesses begin to adopt and scale AI technologies. Through the company’s Community-First approach, Microsoft will also prioritize alignment with regional economic priorities, including advancing Ontario’s investment readiness and competitiveness, fostering the conditions for job creation and apprenticeships and laying the foundation for advanced AI innovation. (Apr 7, '26)
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Canada can't at the moment, and its government has continued becoming more and more entrenched in US tech throughout 2025 and 2026. So, prepare to be disappointed. Most Canadians enjoyed the lip-service a bit, but didn't really care -- even things like the "Buy Local" and travel stuff is easing off already, even as the USA continues down its tech oligarch backed authoritarian villain arch.
BC for example, is likely losing its last Canadian-backend financial institution. The financial system regulators, and all the banks/credit unions, are 100% captured by US tech. Wealthsimple's growing like crazy, built as a cloud-first business within US tech ecosystems, with deep ties to companies like Oracle and Amazon, investing heavily in San Fran tech startups etc. If you had a Data sovereignty type law come in, the entire financial sector, a "critical industry", would disappear.
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Seconded for UK. Anyone not reading the room right now and following the EU's lead is about to FAFO.
Except for the Dutch where the government outsourced the Digid - our national ID and most personal information - to an American firm. Despite concerns from the parliament.
But the new PM is a lapdog to Trump because his mentor and former PM Rutte, is so far up Trump's ass, he can cut his tonsils.
I do agree with most of this, but calling Rutte the mentor of Jetten is simply not true.
Most of what you say is, though.
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Good. Finland just last year spent some 600 million euros on new AI system running on AWS, built by a USA company, that, once it's completed, will handle social insurance related applications. If you need something like unemployment benefits, disability/sickness related benefits, etc. all the necessary information required to handle your application will be handed to that system.
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I believe AWS has already tried getting ahead of this by introducing their EU Sovereign Cloud offering. I can imagine regulators would still allow something like this, but time will tell.
Nha that’s not flying. The gag order thingy is still our problem with those « sovereign » clouds… it’s only sovereign until US gov decides it’s not anymore. See SCHREMS and his admirable endeavours.
Yeah that's bullshit, Microsoft already terrified that that means shit for data sovereignty as the US government can access that data whenever they want, even when it's in Europe, even when it's government data.
So fuck those solutions, and any sovereignty claims on that site are just plain lies. The data is stored in Europe, but that is a mere technicality as the US government can view it at any moment they want
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Europe needs to invest in proper cloud infrastructure. The only European cloud provider that is even remotely comparable to the big 3 is Scaleway, and they're still like 10 years behind in terms of features.
This is doing that. When you are not allowed to use foreign cloud providers, you have to use local ones. So they get business and are able to develop new features.
I mean they are untrustworthy. They have to share any data they have with the us no matter where it is if asked. These safeguards of the data must be in our country means nothing.
Even if the US was trustworthy, this is still a prudent move. Good relations are not forever between nations, and it reduces the opportunities for third parties like Palantir to exfiltrate data.
I am 100% for this, and hates Microsoft as much as the next Lemmy user. However... I stumbled into my career by accident, and I feel like shit for it. I'm a Power Platform developer. What are my options to move?
The guilt alone is your absolution
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