Palantir Technologies — Ethics Grade D+

Palantir Technologies receives an overall ethics grade of D+ (37/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Defense & Aerospace. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 55
• privacy: 15
• consumer: 40
• environment: 75
• humanRights: 10

Documented incidents (3)

• ICE Surveillance Controversy (high, 2019) — Criticized by human rights groups for providing technology to ICE that facilitated mass deportations and tracking of undocumented immigrants.
• Cambridge Analytica Link (high, 2018) — A whistleblower alleged that a Palantir employee worked with Cambridge Analytica to help build the tools that scraped Facebook data without user consent.
• UK NHS Data Deal (medium, 2023) — The £330 million contract to run the Federated Data Platform for the UK's health service faced immense public backlash over data privacy and the company's military links.

Documented good deeds

• World Food Programme Partnership — Provided data analytics tools to the WFP to optimize food delivery in conflict zones and after natural disasters.

Ethical alternatives

• Snowflake Inc. — General-purpose data warehousing with significantly lower direct involvement in state-sponsored surveillance.