Episode 372: Who Controls Your Health Data? Palantir, the NHS and the Risks of Digital Dependency

Episode 372: Who Controls Your Health Data? Palantir, the NHS and the Risks of Digital Dependency

June 7, 2026 · 26 min · Season 6 · Episode 372

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Dominic Bowen discusses health data control and digital dependency with Phil Booth, focusing on Palantir's role in the NHS.

In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, Dominic Bowen speaks with Phil Booth, coordinator of medConfidential and a long-standing campaigner on medical confidentiality, patient consent and data governance, about what Palantir’s growing role in the NHS reveals about public trust, private technology companies and the data infrastructure increasingly underpinning the modern state. The conversation examines the NHS Federated Data Platform, the use of Palantir Foundry and the wider...

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Host: Dominic Bowen

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Organizations: Palantir, NHS, medConfidential

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