✍️ Coles: Cut ties with Palantir
Coles has partnered with Palantir, a company with deep ties to the CIA, US military operations, and surveillance systems around the world. And now, our campaign calling on them to end that partnership is gaining momentum – from inside and outside Coles.
A few days ago, a Coles employee anonymously revealed they'd been instructed to monitor stores for GetUp campaign materials and immediately remove them. And over the past few weeks, over 65,000 people have signed the petition, while our campaign videos have racked up millions of views online.
But companies like Coles rarely back down from partnerships like this unless the public pressure becomes impossible to ignore. Especially when more customers are learning who Palantir is, what it stands for, and what this technology has already been used for. This is where you come in.
Sign to demand Coles end the Palantir partnership and keep military-grade surveillance tech out of our supermarkets.
A few days ago, a Coles employee anonymously revealed they'd been instructed to monitor stores for GetUp campaign materials and immediately remove them. And over the past few weeks, over 65,000 people have signed the petition, while our campaign videos have racked up millions of views online.
But companies like Coles rarely back down from partnerships like this unless the public pressure becomes impossible to ignore. Especially when more customers are learning who Palantir is, what it stands for, and what this technology has already been used for. This is where you come in.
Sign to demand Coles end the Palantir partnership and keep military-grade surveillance tech out of our supermarkets.
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:
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- 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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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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