"not allowing an offshore company to learn and build better products they can sell to someone else" [offshore company]
This framing explicitly identifies health data as a training and product-development asset, not just a privacy risk — directly supporting the claim that data sovereignty is being recast as an AI competitiveness issue.
Reasoning from this article
The Tony Blair Institute's framing redefines the NHS-Palantir debate from a privacy/security question into an industrial policy question: who captures the learning value embedded in national health data. This generalizes to any government dataset — tax records, transport flows, welfare claims — where AI vendors can extract model-training value that compounds into commercial products sold globally, creating an asymmetric knowledge transfer from public institutions to private foreign firms.