Tell MaineHealth to End Its Contract with Palantir

Maine Med Nurses protest MaineHealth's contract with Palantir on July 23.

Maine Medical Center registered nurses and community allies held a press conference on July 23 in Portland to highlight their demand that MaineHealth cancel its contract with Palantir Technologies.

Palantir is one of the largest A.I. surveillance companies in the world. It has billions in contracts throughout the U.S. government, including with the Pentagon, Department of Defense, and ICE, as well as with Maine Health. Palantir recently released an alarming 22-point manifesto attacking our democratic norms. It makes the case for endless wars so Palantir can continue profiting from violence and surveillance. Violence-enabling tech corporations have no place in our hospitals. Nurses and patients demand a healthy society based on care, not cuts and cuffs.

Tell MaineHealth: Violence-enabling tech corporations have no place in our hospitals

Palantir’s technology has helped enable increasingly deadly encounters with immigration officers, including, most recently, the murders of Johan Sebastian Durán Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. Palantir developed and now operates an application used by immigration officers, called ELITE, which identifies people for arrest, using improperly obtained Medicaid data. At the press conference, nurses responded to the hospital’s refusal to address nurses’ and community members’ concerns and provide transparency.

“MaineHealth’s executives have no business doing business with Palantir,” Meg Sinclair, RN said. “MaineHealth nurses and patients refuse to enable Palantir and its deadly work with ICE and CBP, who just killed our neighbor last week in Biddeford. There is no reason to believe that another company, without a track record of murder and terrorism, couldn’t provide the same services Palantir does.”

Since as early as 2025, MaineHealth has contracted with Palantir to automate communications with insurance companies, but the terms and conditions of the contract remain unknown. Despite multiple requests, MaineHealth executives have refused to release details of the contract.