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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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Braze and Movable Ink Expand Partnership on Personalization

February 10, 2025

Movable Ink has announced that its Da Vinci AI-driven personalization solution is now fully compatible with customer engagement platform Braze. Da Vinci’s content, personalized uniquely for each customer, can now be incorporated into Braze’s customer journey orchestration across email, push, SMS and WhatsApp. Movable Ink and Braze describe the initiative as an entrance to the “Omniverse,” which we hope does better than the Metaverse.

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