Who's watching while we shop?
Governments around the world are walking away from Palantir – and Coles is running out of excuses to stay.
France just replaced Palantir in its own intelligence service.1 Spain has told its state-owned companies to stop signing new contracts.2 Germany's done the same.3 And in the UK, Parliament's own science and innovation committee recommended the NHS not renew its $440 million Palantir deal.4 These aren't fringe decisions – they're governments reaching the same conclusion after enough people made noise, asked hard questions, and refused to let it slide.
Coles has partnered with the same company. A company with deep ties to the CIA, US military operations, ICE, and surveillance systems around the world. A company whose founder, Peter Thiel, has said openly that he doesn't think freedom and democracy are compatible anymore.
And our campaign is gaining momentum – over 70,000 people have already signed this petition. But companies like Coles don't cut ties with partners like Palantir unless the pressure becomes impossible to ignore. The cracks are forming – and every signature widens them.
Add your name now. Tell Coles: if governments around the world have decided Palantir isn't worth the risk, you can too.
France just replaced Palantir in its own intelligence service.1 Spain has told its state-owned companies to stop signing new contracts.2 Germany's done the same.3 And in the UK, Parliament's own science and innovation committee recommended the NHS not renew its $440 million Palantir deal.4 These aren't fringe decisions – they're governments reaching the same conclusion after enough people made noise, asked hard questions, and refused to let it slide.
Coles has partnered with the same company. A company with deep ties to the CIA, US military operations, ICE, and surveillance systems around the world. A company whose founder, Peter Thiel, has said openly that he doesn't think freedom and democracy are compatible anymore.
And our campaign is gaining momentum – over 70,000 people have already signed this petition. But companies like Coles don't cut ties with partners like Palantir unless the pressure becomes impossible to ignore. The cracks are forming – and every signature widens them.
Add your name now. Tell Coles: if governments around the world have decided Palantir isn't worth the risk, you can too.
We ran almost 700 digital and static billboard ads across the country — placed on screens right outside Coles stores to reach shoppers at the exact moment they walk in. The ads are designed to look like Coles' own marketing, but with a very different message.
Watch what happened outside Coles below:
Watch what happened outside Coles below:
Supermarkets are essential infrastructure. We buy our groceries there every week. They are not intelligence agencies. They are not defence contractors.
Palantir's software is used to directly enable some of the worst abuses of the Trump regime. It's used by ICE to power data systems that track, target and coordinate detention and deportation operations – and US Senate investigations have linked those operations to family separations with more than a thousand children still not reunited.
Its tech was also used to plan the illegal attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro that reportedly left more than a hundred people dead or wounded. And Palantir's founder and chair is the controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel – who's spent vast sums of money promoting ideas and political candidates widely condemned as anti-democratic and racist.
Yet one of the country's largest supermarket chains is embedding Palantir's sophisticated tech in its core operations, while simultaneously collecting detailed surveillance and behavioural data from shoppers.
This combination has the potential to normalise intrusive data practices in everyday life – long before we have robust safeguards in place to protect privacy, fairness and democratic accountability.
Palantir's software is used to directly enable some of the worst abuses of the Trump regime. It's used by ICE to power data systems that track, target and coordinate detention and deportation operations – and US Senate investigations have linked those operations to family separations with more than a thousand children still not reunited.
Its tech was also used to plan the illegal attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro that reportedly left more than a hundred people dead or wounded. And Palantir's founder and chair is the controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel – who's spent vast sums of money promoting ideas and political candidates widely condemned as anti-democratic and racist.
Yet one of the country's largest supermarket chains is embedding Palantir's sophisticated tech in its core operations, while simultaneously collecting detailed surveillance and behavioural data from shoppers.
This combination has the potential to normalise intrusive data practices in everyday life – long before we have robust safeguards in place to protect privacy, fairness and democratic accountability.
We are calling on Coles to:
Add your name to our petition, and we'll keep you in the loop on next steps.
- End its partnership with Palantir
- Publicly clarify what data has been accessed by Palantir
- Commit to keeping defence-grade data-integration systems out of Australian supermarkets
Add your name to our petition, and we'll keep you in the loop on next steps.
[1] France to ditch Palantir's AI data tools in favour of domestic provider, The Guardian, 17 June 2026.
[2] Spain blacklists Palantir while NATO embraces its Maven Smart System, CyberNews, 3 July 2026.
[3] German intelligence offices snub US-owned Palantir software, DW, 14 May 2026.
[4] Palantir's role in UK public services branded 'unacceptable' by committee report, Sky News UK, 3 June 2026.
[2] Spain blacklists Palantir while NATO embraces its Maven Smart System, CyberNews, 3 July 2026.
[3] German intelligence offices snub US-owned Palantir software, DW, 14 May 2026.
[4] Palantir's role in UK public services branded 'unacceptable' by committee report, Sky News UK, 3 June 2026.
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We deserve to buy groceries without wondering what invisible systems are watching, tracking or profiling us.
I call on Coles to:
- End its partnership with Palantir
- Publicly clarify what data has been accessed by Palantir
- Commit to keeping defence-grade data-integration systems out of Australian supermarkets
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