Thread by @EinsteinsAttic

Hmm. I wonder if this one's as vague and hand-wavy as its #DigitalIdentity strategy?

It doesn't start well, with @OliverDowden failing even to acknowledge what he's talking about is in large part PERSONAL data, with rights attaching - which he also fails to mention.

Nor that the Government has taken extraordinary data processing powers during the pandemic...

...and yet has *still* managed to screw things up itself. Repeatedly. Refusing to share data with those who need it. Failing to be transparent, or even lawful in how it handles tens of millions of citizens data.

If this is what @DCMS calls "ethical" then we're truly screwed...

And then there's crap like this 👇

@NHSX, a non-statutory 'brand' for @MattHancock's 'Tech Vision', is cobbling together (yet another) strategy "to build on"... NHS Level 4 Emergency powers?! Those are the only basis for the "permissive approach"!

Non-medics proposing a...

...national lock-in to a state of permanent medical emergency to serve its own (and its masters') tech ambitions sounds like the recipe for a complete disaster to me - care.data on steroids, at the very least!

Also, do you notice what's MISSING from the 'Actions'?

Transforming citizens' access to government's use of (our) data, which - if @DCMS could strategise at all - is what joins up with #DigitalIdentity, and which underpins #trust.

I'll have to take a proper look later (not on my phone) but it's not looking good ☹️

Meanwhile, @peterkwells nails some fundamentals in this [Thread]:



I wonder if a #MutantAlgorithm would mark @@DCMS down for making such false assertions and logical errors?

And @neil_neilzone asks VERY important questions in this [Thread] too:



What actually *is* "online harms data" in @DCMS' woefully inadequate definition? And what exactly does "opening it up" mean?

Well spotted by @owenboswarva (& @RichGreenhill):



For all @DCMS' talk about its new 'strategy', @cabinetofficeuk just took back key Government data sharing and access to information functions.