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Spy co. Palantir wins £330M (US$417M) NHS contract; raises fears

Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel, is a company known for working with intelligence agencies and military organizations around the world. Now they and four partners, including Accenture, have won an NHS England £330M contract to build a massive data platform for health data sharing. The platform will allow individual and regional health service trusts to share data to increase efficiency and purportedly to improve care. Why worry? Well, it’s early, but tech, medical and civil liberties groups are concerned patients’ data could be mishandled, and it’s not clear if patients will be allowed controls, including to opt out of having their data shared.

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Italy investigates whether AI platforms collect excessive data to train algorithms

November 28, 2023

Italy’s regulator, one of the most proactive in the EU in investigating AI impact, has invited academics, AI experts and consumer groups to participate in assessing whether online websites are using adequate measures to protect against data scraping by AI platforms. Reuters reports that Italy, France and Germany have already reached agreement on how AI should be regulated and this comes at a time when the EU is completing its AI draft rules.

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Mutinex Offers Free Media Mix Model Validation Framework

September 23, 2025

Media mix models (MMM), originally developed in the 1960’s, have undergone a resurgence as new technologies make them easier to execute and click-based attribution becomes less credible. But evaluating MMM brings its own challenges. Australia-based Mutinex offers a vendor-neutral Open Source MMM Validation Framework which is now available for free to North American marketers and agencies.

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