According to the newspaper, the Swedish police have been using the American AI company Palantir's Gotham program for five years.
The program, which in Swedish has been named Acus, uses artificial intelligence to compile and analyze large amounts of information.
According to ETC, this involves sensitive personal data from intelligence and criminal records as well as information from Bank ID, mobile operators and social media accounts.
“Hush-hush”
There was a lot of hush-hush around that program, an anonymous former police analyst tells ETC.
In both the UK and Germany, the police's use of Palantir has created debate. In Sweden, its use has gone under the radar.
The police authority does not want to answer any of ETC's questions about Palantir, but writes that it can neither "confirm nor deny relations with Palantir" due to "danger to national security".
Cooperation with Israel
The authority therefore does not want to answer questions about how many Swedes are monitored in the system or whether the data is stored in the American company's cloud.
Palantir, which also makes combat command software, has previously been criticized for working closely with Israel and has been accused by the UN of violating international law and human rights in Gaza. The company has rejected the criticism.
