The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is set to renew its five-year contract with Palantir, the US data-analytics firm, despite a leaked internal audit warning of "inadequate risk management" and unresolved data-privacy concerns in their partnership. The August 2025 audit by the WFP's Office of the Inspector General found that the agency lacks proper guidelines for protecting the personal data of millions of aid beneficiaries stored in its SCOPE biometric database, and that no clear exit strategy from Palantir's system exists. Critics, including independent researchers and some WFP staff, warn that a contractual clause allowing Palantir to use data for "performance improvement" could permit the firm — whose software is embedded in US military and immigration enforcement operations — to train its AI systems on sensitive humanitarian data, raising what one report called "a grave abdication of ethical responsibility."