Palantir in Talks to Help the U.K. With Test-and-Trace

Data analytics company Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) is reportedly in talks with the United Kingdom about helping manage the country's struggling test-and-trace coronavirus program.

The U.K. system put in place to try to better manage the pandemic and allow the British economy to reopen has been plagued by IT glitches and slow turnaround times. The tech issues have been blamed by some critics of the U.K. government for helping to lead to a spike in new cases. That spike has in turn caused the government to impose new national lockdown measures.

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