LONDON — Lawyers working on behalf of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have accused the capital’s police force of breaching procurement rules by working with Palantir to award the U.S. tech giant a closely watched police contract.
The case follows concerns expressed by multiple parliamentary committees about the U.K.’s dependence on foreign technology firms such as Palantir, which was co-founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel.
The tech firm brought a claim against the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in the High Court in June after Khan’s deputy mayor refused to sign off on a £50 million contract with the Metropolitan Police for the provision of an AI and data analysis service.
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