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UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
Key takeaways
- The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded.
- Right now you can go to https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk and search for whichever bête noire has you riled up.
- The Government says who it paying money to.
The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals.
Right now you can go to https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk and search for whichever bête noire has you riled up. You might want to argue that the company is corrupt, incompetent, or overpriced - but you can't argue that its contract is secret. There's no conspiracy. There's no secrecy. There's not even "beware of the leopard" shenanigans. It's all out in the open0.
The Government says who it paying money to.
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