How sensitive data from Centrelink and other Australian agencies may have been fed to Palantir software
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Guardian Australia · Australia · Oceania
Exclusive: Personal information of Centrelink clients and childcare workers is among data shared with ACIC, which uses US tech company’s softwareThe personal information of Centrelink customers, taxpayers and childcare workers is among a trove of sensitive data that may be ending up in Palantir’s surveillance software in Australia, without the departments responsible for the information even knowing about it.As Guardian Australia reported in September, Palantir’s software is used by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) as part of the multi-agency fraud fusion taskforce, which
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