sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoLondon mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50M Metropolitan police deal with Palantirwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down11
arrow-up1390arrow-down1external-linkLondon mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50M Metropolitan police deal with Palantirwww.theguardian.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareDeebster@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·2 days agoScotland Yard are saying that unless they’re allowed to spend £50m on Palantir, they’ll have to reduce officer numbers? I can’t see their logic.
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-22 days agoThis… sounds like a win-win? Oh no, not fewer police and no palantir…
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 days agoIt’s just a way to pressure dumbass politicians into agreeing to give them the money. It’s all tactics
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days ago“If you don’t let us expand the police state we’ll reduce the police state even further”
Scotland Yard are saying that unless they’re allowed to spend £50m on Palantir, they’ll have to reduce officer numbers? I can’t see their logic.
This… sounds like a win-win? Oh no, not fewer police and no palantir…
It’s just a way to pressure dumbass politicians into agreeing to give them the money.
It’s all tactics
“If you don’t let us expand the police state we’ll reduce the police state even further”