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How is this any different from Amazon offering the NHS Amazon RDS licenses for free/£1? Is the argument against this that the NHS not be allowed to use any clo

• zentiggr 6y ago
  Rather than being some ostensibly neutral cloud, Palantir was/is CIA funded. So data straight into CIA/NSA/whomevers hands.
  • bhupy 6y ago
    As far as I'm aware, Palantir is basically a SaaS data analytics provider for governments all over the world. Why would any government consent to working with Palantir if they had any suspicion that their data might be used by US government clandestine agencies?
• jen20 6y ago
  AWS do not have the legal right to use data in an RDS-managed database, and there would be hell to pay in terms of off-AWS migrations if they were ever found to be using customer data where they claim not to. Palantir is not a "cloud service" in the same way.
  • bhupy 6y ago
    Structurally speaking, what mechanism prevents Amazon from being able to access RDS-managed customer data that doesn't prevent Palantir from doing the same? As far as I'm aware, Palantir doesn't claim to share data between its customers. It works with governments all over the world — ostensibly this means that either Palantir agrees to not share its customers data with other customers, or every government is implicitly consenting to their citizens' data being accessed by every other government.