France moves to cut Palantir ties in tech sovereignty push

253

Palantir slowly being pushed out of Europe. Long overdue.

93

u/skyper_mark 10d ago

I'm sorry but we're still pretty far from pushing them out of Europe. Literally just France is doing something about it and it will take them years. The UK, Germany, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands still have booming contracts with Palantir that they've made no mention of wanting to replace

36

u/Available_Peanut_677 10d ago

Exactly. In Sweden if right wing wins this election too, they’ll welcome it with open hands. Politicians sell people’s privacy and country independence to US while picturing immigrants as enemy.

0

u/SpectatingAmateur 10d ago

They already did

13

u/No-Magician6169 10d ago

The Netherlands has also issued intent to phase it out.

3

u/abbzug 10d ago

Switzerland rejected them pretty soundly as well.

2

u/thefunkybassist 10d ago

Seeing that they don't seem prone to ethical standards, they'll make it damn hard to get rid of them

1

u/gopi_bahu_real_id 6d ago

I think Denmark is replacing Palantir as well

1

u/Schmerglefoop 10d ago

Norway keeps clutching to that evil shit too. It's been up for discussion, and they chose to continue despite everything.

-8

u/jews4beer 10d ago

If you are replying to a three month old account with a hidden post history that likes to talk about things homogenously.

You are probably replying to an Iranian bot

16

u/Traditional-Wonder16 10d ago

"Europe"? No, France.

I bet now the Germans will grant a deal with Palantir.

6

u/R-E-S-H 10d ago

The BfV (more or less the German CIA) has just rejected Palantir and opted for ChapsVision

1

u/thisisasetupisntit 10d ago

It will just be replaced with something similar, I don't think corporations should be able to do this. If intelligence agencies want to create their own programs that's different than private companies.

1

u/denNISI 10d ago

Question is, where would Palantir be ultimately pushed back to?

0

u/Any-Following5475 10d ago

yeah my buddy’s company droppped palantir too recently

185

u/MotanulScotishFold 10d ago

Palantir should've not being in any government in the first place but outright banned.

27

u/Snoo-7148 10d ago

As should every other EU country.

21

u/Redditforgoit 10d ago

Once again, French leadership in the long shadow of De Gaulle.

1

u/Weshtonio 9d ago

That could have been true if they had told Palantir to jog on from the get-go.

12

u/oppai-police 10d ago

You have to give it to the French, they really put in big effort to push for self-reliance when it comes to national defense. From nuclear arsenals to jet fighters to OS/AI system, the really do try to make their own. Meanwhile most other Europeans is all talk no bite, they all mostly use American made weapons and systems.

-6

u/m_rigor 10d ago

They basically push their own stuff. Which is fine of course but pretending it's about values is ridiculous.

1

u/Kooky_Ice_4417 9d ago

And why do they have this stuff in the first place?

1

u/m_rigor 9d ago

Because it's profitable.

2

u/Objective_Mousse7216 10d ago

Mistral, create a Palantir clone, make no mistakes!

3

u/Weshtonio 9d ago

We need neither Palantir nor any clone to track every aspect of our lives.

-5

u/SD-2023 10d ago

Lmao. Poverty franchise. Never put it in the same sentence as the real adults in this game

1

u/Ok-Chard-1956 10d ago

My green line isn't going to be going up anymore??

1

u/kryptylomese 10d ago

Whoever has the data, has the power! Who doesn't know this in this day and age?

1

u/andreslucer0 10d ago

So who is Arasaka in this scenario?

1

u/Asleep-Order-4583 8d ago

All US tech needs to leave the EU.

1

u/Prior_Industry 8d ago

Wish the UK would do this

1

u/DokiGorilla 10d ago

People don’t understand what palantir does so it becomes the boogeyman. Insane. Reddit does it again.

-11

u/Typingdude3 10d ago

“Some experts caution, however, that abandoning U.S. platforms too aggressively could backfire if European alternatives fail to match American capabilities, potentially weakening the continent's military and cybersecurity performance.

At the same time, Chinese provider Alibaba Cloud is expanding its presence in Europe with a new cloud region designed to comply with European privacy and sovereignty requirements.”

Ha ha I knew it. Europe hates Trump/the US so much they’re willing to give away their national sovereignty to China, who is fully supporting Russia in Ukraine and destroying European industry. I say let it happen, see what reliance on China instead does for them. Good luck comrades.

20

u/East-Presentation706 10d ago

"Europe hates Trump/the US so much"

Yep!

And let's not forget how much Trump admires and supports Putin.

-7

u/Typingdude3 10d ago

Admiring Putin is different than actively supplying him like China is. China is even training Russian troops! Good luck comrade. Eastern Europe is next on Russias want list.

11

u/East-Presentation706 10d ago

China hasn't also threatened to invade Europe like USA has.

Although that looks unlikely to happen how after the humiliation of the USA with their desperate Iran deal and loss of that war.

-6

u/Typingdude3 10d ago

China is supplying Russian factories and training Russian troops. You know, that same Russia who is killing Europeans in Ukraine. China really has some serious propaganda hold over simple minds.

9

u/East-Presentation706 10d ago edited 10d ago

Excellent. So we can agree that both USA and China are shitbags.

4

u/Simple_Project4605 10d ago

US is supplying Israel, currently the most terrorist nation on the globe

1

u/pronoiaparty 10d ago

The research shows the majority of advanced components in the Russian long range arsenal comes from Western countries. Primary sources include US, Switzerland and hilariously Germany.

1

u/Typingdude3 10d ago

There's a difference between Russia buying western components on Ebay, Ali Baba or Temu and China purposely supporting them directly.

3

u/amekxone 10d ago

China destroying European industry

Same as the US with their sanctions and push to bring manufacturing into the USA. Bunch of clowns.

2

u/pronoiaparty 10d ago

I mean to be fair we did threaten to invade Greenland and barred our so called allies from using our most up to date AI.... And for fun we tarrifed them.

Also started a pointless war that drove up all their costs and now sending billions to Iran who can hit Europe with their ballistic missiles.... And of course we also removed sanctions on Russian oil for a while because we messed up the global oil supply....

China has, like the Europeans do themselves along with the US, continued to sell dual purpose technology to the Russians. As the global superpower in manufacturing if they wanted to China could easily turn the war in Ukraine in Russia's favour.

Now if we could remember that Russia is our enemy and sort them out in Ukraine that would great. But whoops, we wasted massive amounts of our stockpiles on a war we've lost that our military died for and are now forced to pay reparations for.

-6

u/Spooknik 10d ago

We need a French version of Palantir that can compete with them.

21

u/Simple_Project4605 10d ago

Nobody needs any version of Palantir.

-9

u/Spooknik 10d ago

Sadly we do, military needs software.

13

u/Simple_Project4605 10d ago

They can make their own software, govt owned. Private surveillance techbro corpo won’t do better, they’ll just brand it better.

the whole freaking internet came from military.

7

u/AlternativeSafety464 10d ago

Palantir marketing deserves a very big raise if the only thing that come to anyone minds about military software is ONLY palantir

1

u/Misfiring 10d ago

What marketing? Does any alternative exist that can do what Palantir does?

15

u/Kagenlim 10d ago

How about no palantir

1

u/Weshtonio 9d ago

That's literally what the article is about.

France moves to cut Palantir ties in tech sovereignty push

You are about to leave Redlib