London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir

A £50m Met police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir has been blocked by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan , with City Hall citing a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules. Scotland Yard had been in talks, revealed by the Guardian last month, to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations. But Khan intervened on Thursday to stop the flagship contract, which would have been Palantir’s largest yet in British policing. …