Correct.

I expect the author of the article must also recognize that Big Tech is in the same basket and are just as complicit for the sake of consistency. The problem is, we just don't hear about it often.

When I brought this up last time in [0] all I saw was constant hairsplitting, attempts to seperate Big Tech from Palantir and lots of 'whataboutism' accusations, which doesn't work because I agree.

So when I saw this in the article:

> Palantir’s tentacles are already extending into our communities. In my constituency of Coventry, the Labour-run council awarded the company a £500,000 contract to develop an AI tool for children’s services.

Google [1], Microsoft [2], Amazon [3] are no different and these are just a few of them and they are just as bad as Palantir and all of them are in the SNP 500 directly in the portfolios of pension funds.

So it is indeed a waste of time trying to picking and choose US tech companies on this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407683

[1] https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634759/Google-wins-mu...

[2] https://www.digitalhealth.net/2023/06/nhs-signs-new-microsof...

[3] https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366566172/AWS-secures-89...