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Sadiq Khan agrees to have his texts and emails searched in Palantir legal battle
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Sadiq Khan has agreed for his text messages and emails to be searched as part of a legal battle with Palantir, the high court has been told, after he prevented the US technology company from working with the Metropolitan police.
Key facts
- The London mayor stepped in to block a £50m deal between Palantir and the Met in May, with the artificial intelligence developer suing Khan’s office over the decision
- Sarah Brown, Khan’s former director of communications, who now works for the prime minister, Andy Burnham, will also have her correspondence searched
- Sadiq Khan has agreed for his text messages and emails to be searched as part of a legal battle with Palantir, the high court has been told, after he prevented the US technology company from working
- But the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), which oversees large Scotland Yard contracts, said there had been a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules
Summary
The London mayor stepped in to block a £50m deal between Palantir and the Met in May, with the artificial intelligence developer suing Khan’s office over the decision. Legal representatives for the mayor said they “did not originally consider it necessary” for Khan to be among those to have their communications searched before next year’s court case. Sarah Brown, Khan’s former director of communications, who now works for the prime minister, Andy Burnham, will also have her correspondence searched. The proposed two-year deal would have allowed Palantir, which works for the Israeli military and the Trump administration in its immigration crackdown, to provide AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations.