Palantir Technologies Inc. — Ethics Grade D

Palantir Technologies Inc. receives an overall ethics grade of D (28/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Technology. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 60
• privacy: 10
• consumer: 40
• environment: 70
• humanRights: 15

Documented incidents (3)

• ICE Deportation Logistics (high, 2019) — Palantir's software was used by ICE for 'investigative case management' that facilitated workplace raids and deportations, leading to widespread protests and accusations of complicity in family separations.
• Cambridge Analytica Ties (medium, 2018) — Whistleblowers revealed that a Palantir employee worked with Cambridge Analytica to help model the data harvested from Facebook users. Palantir disavowed the employee's actions as unauthorized.
• NHS Data Platform Controversy (high, 2023) — Palantir's £330m contract to run the UK's NHS data platform sparked intense public outcry over patient privacy and the privatization of health data by a company with ties to the intelligence community.

Documented good deeds

• WFP Aid Logistics — Palantir provides its platform to the World Food Programme to help optimize the distribution of food aid in complex conflict zones.

Ethical alternatives

• Snowflake Inc. — Focuses on neutral cloud data warehousing without the heavy intelligence/surveillance application profile.