{"id":1019794,"date":"2026-07-10T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019794"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:01:24","slug":"palantir-says-uk-police-contract-wrongly-blocked-over-perceived-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/10\/palantir-says-uk-police-contract-wrongly-blocked-over-perceived-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir says UK police contract wrongly blocked over perceived &#8216;values&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. tech firm Palantir is challenging a decision to block a contract with London police, arguing on Thursday that London mayor Sadiq Khan&#8217;s office wrongly took into account the company&#8217;s &#8220;values and ethics&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Palantir had agreed a two-year, \u00a350 million ($67.06 million) contract with the Metropolitan Police to use its artificial intelligence systems to automate \u200ccertain tasks \u2060and for \u2060evidence analysis in criminal investigations. <\/p>\n<p>But the mayor&#8217;s office refused to approve the deal, telling \u200bthe Met Police in May that the force had failed to have an open \u200bcompetition for the contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. tech firm Palantir is challenging a decision to block a contract with London police, arguing on Thursday that London mayor Sadiq Khan&#8217;s office wrongly took into account the company&#8217;s &#8220;values and ethics&#8221;. Palantir had agreed a two-year, \u00a350 million ($67.06 million) contract with the Metropolitan Police to use its artificial intelligence systems to automate \u200ccertain tasks \u2060and for \u2060evidence analysis in criminal investigations. But the mayor&#8217;s office refused to approve the deal, telling \u200bthe Met Police in May that the force had failed to have an open \u200bcompetition for the contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019819,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019794\/revisions\/1019819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}