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The Control Layer

The Sovereignty Calculation

What Switzerland's Palantir Rejection Teaches Every Democracy

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Amer Altaf
Dec 22, 2025
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A Swiss mountain fortress deflecting streams of digital data, symbolising data sovereignty protection

Why it matters: Switzerland has formally rejected Palantir’s surveillance software after concluding that no operational benefit justifies losing control of national security data to a foreign government. The decision offers a template for how democracies can evaluate—and resist—technological dependencies that compromise their autonomy.

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