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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaKCDHVMJaD\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has sounded the alarm over Palantir\u2019s growing influence, raising disturbing questions about the origins of the data used to build powerful AI systems and the expanding role of the company inside public institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The same surveillance and targeting infrastructure refined through years of monitoring Palestinians is now being marketed around the world as cutting-edge technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to Varoufakis, the company that secured a \u00a31.4 billion NHS contract is the same company whose technologies were refined and tested through years of surveillance, data collection and military operations connected to Palestine. Including to Britain\u2019s NHS.<br \/>\nFor years, Palestinians have lived under one of the most sophisticated surveillance systems on earth. Every movement tracked. Every phone monitored.<\/p>\n<p>Every interaction potentially recorded, analysed and stored. Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories have effectively become data farms for technology companies, selling them as cutting edge security data. <\/p>\n<p>Now these same technology companies are finding their way into hospitals, government agencies and public services across Europe and North America.<br \/>\nFirst they watched Palestinians.<br \/>\nThen they sold the software.<\/p>\n<p>Now they want access to your health records. EXPOSE THEM ALL!<\/p>\n<p>Sources: @sahatenglish @cityandguildsfoundation<\/p>\n<p>#Palantir #NHS #YanisVaroufakis #Gaza #Palestine<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nYanis Varoufakis: And here I&#8217;m going to tell you a story. It&#8217;s a story that I keep telling in the last few months, because nothing has disgusted me and excited me as much as that conversation I had with a southern gentleman who is sitting on my right at the dinner table. At the dinner, after the conference, I sat next to a guy from Cisco on my left, and another guy that I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to. initially. I was chatting with a guy from Cisco. It was just a conversation. It was about quantum computing. And then at some point, a gentleman, a Qatari brought me up to a side of the table, very rich man, but nevertheless, he thanked me for the work I&#8217;ve been doing against genocide, in support of the Palestinian people, and the guy next to me who I didn&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know who he was, his name, whom he worked for. He said Gaza. Gaza, we owe such a huge debt of gratitude to Gaza. And I said, who are you? And he said, oh, I work for Palantir. And I said to him, well, so you owe him exactly what? You seem to be enjoying the fact that tens of thousands of children died, were killed there. He said no, no, no, no, that was terrible. And then he pointed at my phone. I had my phone on the desk. On the desk, on the dinner table. And he said, you see your phone? It is useless to me because it&#8217;s stationary. When your phone is stationary, it&#8217;s not moving. It doesn&#8217;t produce data that I can use. But if you bombard a densely populated area intensely, people move a lot with their phones. Those who don&#8217;t get killed. He was very cynical, but also quite listened, you know, during dinner. And he said, so that created so much data for us that we managed to train our AI that we want a particular agent, AI agent, which we sold, and I am going to check the number. It was confirmed we sold for 1 billion pounds sterling right. That&#8217;s $1.4 billion to the British public National Health Service. And I said, what the hell was that piece of AI? What did you sell them? Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re in Manchester, in Birmingham and there is a pileup on the motorway and, you know, 1015 ambulances arrive at the hospital, there&#8217;s panic among nurses, the doctors and so on. So we have AI that helps them create some order out of the chaos of panic and we trained that anti panic AI using the panic of the panic imprint. This was an expression from Gaza. 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