The Dutch police have secretly used controversial AI intelligence software by the American company Palantir since 2012, the Volkskrant reported, based on documents obtained through the Open Government Act after years of trying. 99 percent of the documents have been blacked out, but it is clear that caretaker Prime Minister Dick Schoof was involved in purchasing the software in 2011 as Director General of the Dutch police.

The Dutch police have secretly used controversial AI intelligence software by the American company Palantir since 2012, the Volkskrant reported, based on documents obtained through the Open Government Act after years of trying. 99 percent of the documents have been blacked out, but it is clear that caretaker Prime Minister Dick Schoof was involved in purchasing the software in 2011 as Director General of the Dutch police.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    The Netherlands has been so pro USA for years, they will do anything the US tells them and they will use any trendy tech that comes from there. One single local government in the Netherlands doesn’t rely on us infrastructure. The Dutch tax office decided to sign a deal with Microsoft this year after all the talk about sovereignty.

    The US told the dutch government to stop ASML from selling their lithography machines to China and the the Netherlands just bowed down and kissed their toes. ASML was forced to exclude China. The US said “no more Huawei only USA” and the Netherlands reported it as “Huawei is evil, we must trust USA”.

    The Netherlands even has a healthcare system with deductibles (not the entire thing is like the US healthcare system luckily).

    If the US said “Netherlands, become the 51rst state” there’d be a countrywide celebration.