Palantir Has No Place Here!

Together with 127 organisations and trade unions from across Europe, we are calling on governments and the European Commission to cancel their public contracts with Palantir. We would like to thank journalist Dimitris Elafropoulos, who highlighted our joint letter in an article published in the newspaper TO VIMA and featured comments from our Executive Director, Eleftherios Chelioudakis.

Palantir is an American technology company that develops software for surveillance, law enforcement, healthcare data processing, and military operations.

In Greece, the company collaborated with the Ministry of Digital Governance in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, together with Inside Story and Vouliwatch, we brought the related concerns to public attention. Homo Digitalis also requested an investigation by the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), which subsequently led to Decision 43/2022.

Read our joint letter here.

Read Dimitris Elafropoulos’s article in the newspaper TO VIMA here.