Palantir

Palantir supports digital inclusivity for women and girls through its Women in Technology Scholarship. This scholarship helps women pursue careers in technology at universities in Europe and North America.

No evidence was found of the company having leading practices in this area.

Palantir shows leading practice in the area of technology use by assigning responsibility for cybersecurity to its Chief Information Security Officer and making its information security management certificate publicly available. It also provides its technology to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, a US based non-profit organisation, to help reduce child sexual exploitation.

The company has several open source projects.

Little evidence was found that Palantir has initiatives to make digital technologies more accessible to vulnerable groups. Additionally, the company should disclose how the economic value it generates is distributed among its stakeholders, as well as the taxes it pays and its employment in its main markets.

No evidence was found that Palantir supports any activities aimed at digital skills development or school connectivity. The company has an opportunity to support and report on initiatives in this area.

The company can be more transparent about how it manages cybersecurity. Furthermore, it can disclose the data breaches it experiences.

Beyond open source projects, no evidence was found of the company’s activities relating to open, inclusive and ethical innovation. Palantir has an opportunity to expand its support and reporting on initiatives in this area.

Palantir does not commit to respecting human rights in a publicly available policy statement. It also does not provide a formal policy commitment in regard to respecting all the ILO core labour rights, including the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Palantir does not disclose a process to identify, assess and act on salient human rights risks in its own operations and in its business relationships. Moreover, the company does not engage with stakeholders whose human rights could be impacted by its operations. The company has a grievance mechanism accessible to both workers and external stakeholders to raise human rights concerns and complaints, but it is unclear if complainants are able to remain anonymous.

Palantir does not have a formal policy statement to respect worker health and safety. Furthermore, the company discloses no relevant information in relation to working hours, collective bargaining fundamentals or living wages. Palantir does not commit to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, and further, does not disclose information on workforce diversity per employee category.

Palantir has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, but it does not include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationship contracts. The company discloses the income taxes it pays in three categories – federal, state and foreign. However, it does not disclose its income tax payments in individual tax jurisdictions. Furthermore, its tax strategy is only applicable to the UK. Also, no relevant information was found in relation to the company’s approach to lobbying and political engagement.