'Automated suspicion' | Met Police under scrutiny over use of Palantir AI to track employee standards

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it is using artificial intelligence software from US firm Palantir to analyse sickness, absence and overtime data, prompting criticism from staff representatives and political scrutiny.

As first reported by The Guardian, the force had previously declined to confirm whether it deployed Palantir tech - which is also used by the likes of ICE in the US and the Israeli military - but Scotland Yard has now acknowledged it is running a time-limited pilot that brings together data from multiple internal systems.