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Features in this issue

• Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers

  by  Antony Adshead

  We examine the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Metropolitan Police’s Palantir Foundry pilot, and the governance gaps it exposes around surveillance, transparency and staff consultation

• Retail Technology Show: No let-up in retail tech investments

  by  Glynn Davis

  At the 2026 Retail Technology Show, retailers shared some of the challenges and benefits of implementing emerging technologies

• Interview: How Volvo built software for a two-and-a-half-tonne moving object

  by  Kim Loohuis

  Volvo Cars is the only legacy carmaker in the world rated at the highest level of software-defined vehicle capability by S&P Global Mobility. Its chief engineering and technology officer, Anders Bell, tells us how it got there