In the quiet machinery of government data-sharing, the personal lives of Australia's most vulnerable citizens have found their way into one of the world's most controversial surveillance platforms — not through deliberate policy, but through the compounding logic of bureaucratic interconnection. The National Disability Insurance Agency did not lie when it said it wasn't using Palantir; it simply omitted the path by which its participants' data arrived there anyway, routed through a 25-agency fraud taskforce and into the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's Palantir contracts. What eme
NDIS data shared with Palantir via fraud taskforce, Guardian reveals
Disability insurance scheme participants' personal data shared without explicit consent, subjecting vulnerable populations to surveillance and potential discriminatory algorithmic assessment.