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Louis Mosley

OPINION - Palantir UK's CEO: Mayor of London denying police our software is the worst form of virtue signalling

Last year, Bedfordshire Police were trying to dismantle the “F*** the Police” gang in Luton. They had stolen £700,000 from cash machines across the country — more than 3,000 withdrawals from dozens of locations. The investigation involved data scattered across multiple force systems, phone records from seized devices, ANPR data, financial transactions. Connecting it all, by hand, would have taken months.

Using software made by my company, Palantir, they did it in weeks. The gang is now behind bars.

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