Protesters regularly target Palantir over Israel’s use of its technology in the Gaza conflict and opposition to its use in US immigration enforcement.
Privacy experts have also raised concerns that its tools enable surveillance and analysis of everything from social media posts to driving licences and DNA swabs.
But the company says its software has delivered better public services across UK organisations which include the NHS, the Ministry of Defence and 11 police forces.
EMSOU, which investigates crimes including murder, terrorism offences and drug trafficking in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire, declined to disclose how exactly it used Palantir’s technology during the pilot.
But it has confirmed the trial fed data from Leicestershire Police into an operating system called Foundry that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Palantir provided the BBC with a number of examples of how other forces had used its software to fight crime.
“This includes helping to improve the enforcement of Clare’s Law by identifying 1,000 women in Bedfordshire whose partners have a history of domestic violence in a single year,” a spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added it had also helped to convict a criminal gang that stole £700,000 from cash machines and helped the Metropolitan Police root out serious corruption and identify significant time savings.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
