On Palantir and Cellebrite involvement with AusGov.

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    "Palantir Technologies is an American company whose software is used by the CIA, the Pentagon and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Its platforms fuse large datasets — financial records, government databases, transaction histories, intelligence holdings — to build profiles, identify patterns and surface individuals of interest.

    Cellebrite is an Israeli company that does something more intimate: it extracts the entire contents of a specific person’s phone. Encrypted messages. Deleted files. Location history. Call logs. Health data. Everything. The extraction happens even when the phone is locked.

    In the United Kingdom, where the NHS is already trying to exit a £330 million Palantir contract, police forces are simultaneously integrating Palantir and Cellebrite — using Cellebrite to extract phone data and Palantir to analyse it against broader intelligence holdings…"