You clearly know nothing or feign ignorance about its creator/CEO, Peter Thiel, who is evil, with evil intent, and evil aspirations.

I guess there was nothing evil about GM and Ford supplying Nazis with vehicle parts (Henry Ford got a 'golden eagle' award from Adolf!) before WW2. Just good business, right?

Nothing evil about IBM supplying them with punch cards to keep track of the Jewish either, right?

Palantir could refuse to accept the mandate and the money, but they didn't. So the governments are evil, and so is Palantir

Nah fuck them. They black box said analytics, making any kind of audit of the decisions impossible. This is HORRIBLE, especially in the contract of government and health care.

So palantir analyses pretty sensitive data, for instance health data from NHS. They may not be able to share the data itself but are there any safeguards against them using the knowledge they gain from these analyses to consult health insurance companies for outrageous amounts of money so insurance companies can fuck people even more by grinding stats?

Same goes for them analysing surveillance data. Any safeguards against Palantir consulting fascist political parties on results of these analyses so they can more efficiently carry out fear mongering?

This is an accurate assessment. Companies will do what they can to make more money, it's that simple. The fact that the clients choose to use it for evil doesn't make a difference.

Granted, if their product wasn't available, then governments would buy it, but still, it's just another company taking advantage of what their clients want and profiting from it.

Samsung makes shit devices that steal all your data and sell that data for more profit. The same devices are made with planned obsolescence in mind. If you buy Samsung devices that's on you, not them.