Personal data belonging to participants of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS — a federal program providing support to people with disabilities) may have been processed by Palantir's analytics software as part of a 25-agency fraud investigation network, despite the scheme's governing body previously denying any use of the controversial technology. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has paid Palantir millions in contracts, ingests bulk data from taskforce partner agencies — including the NDIA — and freedom of information documents suggest that data has been fed into Palantir's platform, with one government official noting that processing even a single dataset generates an unmanageable volume of records. Digital rights advocates have condemned the arrangement, arguing that disabled people seeking government support should not be subjected to large-scale surveillance tools built by a company co-founded by US billionaire and Trump ally Peter Thiel, whose firm has faced calls for a government ban in Australia following the publication of a manifesto critics described as culturally supremacist.