With regard to government usage of Palantir hardware, software or other technology, and broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity, since January 1, 2016: (a) has the government ever owned or used any Palantir technology, directly or indirectly (e.g. Palantir drivers being used in SAP Concur programs), and, if so, what are the details, including (i) what elements are owned or in use, (ii) how each element in (a)(i) is used; (b) what are the details of all contracts signed by the government directly with Palantir or with other companies for items that include Palantir technology, including, for each, (i) the date, (ii) the amount, (iii) the vendor, (iv) the description of the goods or services, (v) what the goods or services are used for; (c) what safeguards, if any, does the government have in place to ensure that any Palantir technology used by government entities is not used by Palantir for unauthorized data mining or analytics; (d) which applications or technology, which contained Palantir elements in any way, involved data mining or analytics; and (e) for each application in (d), what measures are in place to ensure that the data is secure and safe from threats both internal and external, as well as from hacking?
In the House of Commons on September 15th, 2025. See this statement in context.
