{"id":262033,"date":"2026-06-02T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/data-driven-governance-threatens-privacy-says-barrister\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:40:15","slug":"data-driven-governance-threatens-privacy-says-barrister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/data-driven-governance-threatens-privacy-says-barrister\/","title":{"rendered":"Data-driven governance threatens privacy, says barrister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-european.eu\/story-61464\/how-britain-is-sleepwalking-into-an-orwellian-data-state.html\">Data-driven governance threatens privacy, says barrister<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-european.eu\/story-61464\/how-britain-is-sleepwalking-into-an-orwellian-data-state.html\">https:\/\/the-european.eu\/story-61464\/how-britain-is-sleepwalking-into-an-orwellian-data-state.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 10:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"the-european.eu\">the-european.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>From policing and healthcare to migration and defence, advanced analytics is increasingly becoming embedded across the British state. Dr Raj Joshi argues that existing legal safeguards were not designed for this new era of data-driven governance, and that the consequences for privacy and democratic accountability could be profound<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Earlier this month, the Mayor of London took the extraordinary step of blocking a \u00a350m contract between the Metropolitan Police Service and Palantir Technologies. His reasons were stark: serious procurement failures, lack of competition, inadequate value-for-money justification and failure to consider ethical and human-rights implications. City Hall also questioned whether Palantir\u2019s global activities, including its publicly acknowledged work with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, aligned with \u201cthe values of our city\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-7754409c\">The Met called the decision \u201cdisappointing\u201d. Yet the Mayor\u2019s intervention highlighted a wider concern: How did Britain reach a point where a US defence-analytics company, openly supporting a foreign military campaign, came close to becoming the data spine of its largest police force?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-deae3e2d\">To answer that, we must look beyond the headlines, and back to George Orwell\u2019s 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-3a5d6e4a\">Orwell imagined a future in which the state\u2019s power rested on its ability to watch, record and interpret every aspect of human life. What he could not have foreseen is that some of the most sophisticated surveillance capabilities would be developed by private corporations and then integrated into the state\u2019s most sensitive systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-ab99a086\">No company exemplifies this development more clearly than Palantir Technologies, whose software now underpins policing, healthcare, defence and migration systems across the UK. Palantir insists it merely integrates data. The concern lies in the concentration of power and visibility that such systems can create.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-9b8c9088\">One issue that has received increasing attention is Palantir\u2019s documented work with Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-f94dcce9\">Palantir\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-european.eu\/story-61464\/how-britain-is-sleepwalking-into-an-orwellian-data-state.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data-driven governance threatens privacy, says barrister https:\/\/the-european.eu\/story-61464\/how-britain-is-sleepwalking-into-an-orwellian-data-state.html Publish Date: 2026-06-02 10:38:00 Source Domain: the-european.eu From&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/the-european.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/feature-image-6.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262037,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262033\/revisions\/262037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}