Exclusive: Personal information of Centrelink clients and childcare workers is among data shared with ACIC, which uses US tech company’s software
The personal information of Centrelink customers, taxpayers and childcare workers is among a trove of sensitive data that may be ending up in Palantir’s surveillance software in Australia, without the departments responsible for the information even knowing about it.
As Guardian Australia reported in September, Palantir’s software is used by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) as part of the multi-agency fraud fusion taskforce, which was established in 2022 with the goal of targeting fraud in government payments from the national disability insurance scheme, childcare and welfare.
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