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France removes intelligence data from Palantir
France is preparing to move sensitive intelligence data away from the American company Palantir and place it under French control. Paris presents the decision as part of a wider effort to reduce strategic dependence on the United States in data analysis, artificial intelligence and national security.
The Directorate-General for Internal Security (Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure, DGSI) is France’s largest intelligence service and its main counter-intelligence agency. It has used Palantir since the terrorist attacks of 2015, when France did not have a comparable domestic system for processing large volumes of intelligence data. The contract is not expected to be renewed when it expires in three years.
The data will be transferred to France, while the analytical system will be entrusted to the French company ChapsVision. Paris no longer wants a foreign company to control tools used for counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence and internal security. The problem concerns not only data storage, but also software, updates, access rights and the development of artificial intelligence.
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ChapsVision already cooperates with German intelligence services and may now gain one of the most important contracts in the French security sector. A successful transfer would strengthen the company’s position against Palantir and support France’s attempt to build its own intelligence technology base.
Other European states may follow the French example. Dependence on American systems is increasingly being treated not only as a technological issue, but also as a security risk. France is now testing whether Europe can replace Palantir in one of the most sensitive areas of state activity.
