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New front in humanitarian aid: the questionable price of new efficiency

Critics say the digital transformation is happening faster than governance can keep up, putting sensitive aid data at risk.

Palantir raising its profile at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Palantir raising its profile at the World Economic Forum in Davos. (AN)

GENEVA (AN) — A global push by humanitarian groups into technology and artificial intelligence opens the sector to data security risks, critics warn, and puts them at odds with private companies' cutting-edge tools.

The friction erupted this week when Amnesty International said its review of public records shows private technology company Palantir's AI tools are used to monitor non-U.S. citizens and pro-Palestine student protestors in the U.S., and to track migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

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