Is this the right characterization? Is Palantir being given access to the data(to do with what they like), or is Palantir software being deployed in the customer private cloud environment?

I am under the impression that Palantir is typically deployed on-premise, or in a private cloud, where the customer can ensure that the data remains sovereign.

Particularly in a military setting, it would be deployed in an airgapped or highly controlled network.

No hard evidence of this was provided or is readily available.

> helped UK police tackle domestic violence

And precisely how was this done?

> Palantir will have to destroy data after completion of the contract

Contractual obligations that are not practically enforceable will not be honored. I don't think these individual administrative agencies have the acumen necessary to correctly negotiate these contracts.

During covid, palantir had to elbow its way to sell to the UK govt and replaced dilapidated “solutions” from the big four.

"US to embed Palantir AI across military" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471655

"The singularity".

But we frequently work with people from adjacent fields (military, law enforcement, aviation, other maritime, etc.), basically the usual suspects as far as Palantir clients go.

My observation has been that there's no strong push or even desire to become a customer. The people I've talked with have either been outright unimpressed, or have already similar systems they've rolled out themselves.

From the demos we've had, it seemed to me that Palantir can do well in countries where all the potential clients are isolated from each others (disorganized even), and do not have and good means of sharing data / communicating with each others.

There's a lot of hype, myth even, around what their tools do - and I can understand why many are just saying "no thanks" when they come knocking. It is sort of underwhelming.

And backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital (CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency of the US).

https://fortune.com/2025/07/29/in-q-tel-cia-venture-capital-...

Also generally speaking e.g. in relation to chat control and so on. Do they think this is what the people actually want because of lobbying or are they aware and believe they know better? Is it literally just corruption? Or are there actual benefits and we are just in the HN bubble where most people think its a bad idea?

Saying that Palantir is "reaching" into the British state, and then having the article image be "billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel" literally holding a wad of cash is... not exactly a high standard of reportage.

It's beyond alarming seeing this company be allowed in the door.