NDIS data may have ended up in Palantir’s analytics platform as part of efforts to curb fraud

Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce

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Personal information of national disability insurance scheme participants may have ended up in controversial software company Palantir's analytics platform as part of a massive multi-agency sharing program investigating fraud, Guardian Australia can reveal.

There have been calls to ban the use of Palantir's software by the Australian government since May, after it implied some cultures are inferior to others in a manifesto described by one UK MP as the ramblings of a supervillain".