Matt Hancock held talks to hand private medical records and Covid test results of millions of Brits to a US company founded by a Donald Trump donor.
At the height of the pandemic, Mr Hancock met with representatives of controversial tech firm Palantir, as Health officials panicked over setbacks to the struggling Test and Trace system.
Hancock had told aides he was “very keen” to see a demo of their software.
And emails seen by the Mirror reveal the firm offered to start hoovering up sensitive patient data within “days”.
Under the plan, Public Health England and Test and Trace staff would have been told to enter patient records - including names, contact information and medical data into Palantir’s Foundry system.
