Palantir has lost a legal bid to force a Swiss magazine to publish its responses to articles detailing how the country’s government repeatedly rejected its services, in a case that has renewed scrutiny of its technology.

In a ruling on Friday, Zurich’s commercial court dismissed 22 of 23 counterstatement requests filed by the US data analytics company and its Swiss subsidiary, finding that only a single passage in one article warranted a published response from the company, which is chaired by Peter Thiel, a co-founder.

The dispute stemmed from two Republik articles that reported how government agencies had declined to adopt the company’s software, and raised concerns about issues including data sovereignty and legal compliance.

The reports, published in December and based mainly on freedom of information requests, examined Palantir’s years-long attempts to secure business with Swiss federal authorities.

The lawsuit has had a “Streisand effect”, drawing wider attention to Republik’s reporting and the Swiss government documents detailing repeated official concerns about adopting Palantir’s technology.

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