Palantir lobbied UK disabilities minister to use software to tackle benefits fraud
by Ben Quinn Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6DMY9)
US data firm wanted to brief Tom Pursglove on how its technology could help recover large amounts'
The US tech firm Palantir lobbied the UK disabilities minister to adopt new technology to crack down on benefits fraud, emails released to the Guardian have revealed.
The company wrote to Tom Pursglove to brief him on technology it had recently deployed elsewhere, promising that it had the potential for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to rapidly recover large amounts of fraud".
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