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Aug 27, 2019 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Labour has had more complaints about its use of data than all the other parties put together

@OpenRightsGroup say the party is "failing on digital rights"

news.sky.com/story/labour-f…
@OpenRightsGroup The ICO received 110 complaints about political parties in 2019

68 were about Labour

The next most-complained about parties were the Tories and the Lib Dems, with 12 each

news.sky.com/story/labour-f…
@OpenRightsGroup The vast majority (46) of the complaints about Labour were about its lack of response to subject access requests

Reminder: this is the first paragraph of Labour's privacy policy 👇
@OpenRightsGroup Labour said it was "working hard to process outstanding requests"

It also claimed it was likely to have more complaints because it was the biggest party

news.sky.com/story/labour-f…
@OpenRightsGroup The ICO told me it was on the case - it actually resent its statement to add that "particularly"
@OpenRightsGroup To be clear, these are just complaints, not ongoing ICO cases, so there's no proof of wrongdoing

But @MissIG_Geek put the worry perfectly: if Labour can't manage to fulfil its legal obligation to reply to subject access requests, what else could it be getting wrong?
Paging all my data protection nerds @johnnyryan @PrivacyMatters @mikarv @jimkillock

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We rarely talk about the mass automation brought about by the PC. But it was massive! Take a look at this map of the most popular job in every US state in 1978. With the exception of truck drivers – for now – every job on that map has been reshaped by automationImage
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Long covid has wrecked my life

It’s bad, very bad. But you knew that already

I want to tell you a hopeful story. A story about the things that can be done here and now to mitigate this terrible illness
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Don’t like putting personal things on Twitter, but I’ve just logged on after a while and found a load of DMs asking why I’ve disappeared, which is… a good question

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EXCLUSIVE

A leaked Test and Trace document admits that data from check-ins at pubs, restaurants and hairdressers was barely used for contact tracing

Nor was data from hundreds of millions of check-ins with the contact tracing app
news.sky.com/story/test-and…
It gets worse

On the rare occasions their data was used for contact tracing, businesses were encouraged to call customers themselves, a breach of data protection law

Test and Trace admits businesses could face legal action as a result
news.sky.com/story/test-and…
I spoke to @justinmadders who said the revelations showed "a staggering level of dysfunctionality at the heart of the Test and Trace system"

I also talked to @UKHospKate, who reminded me how hard businesses worked to put these check-in systems in place
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The global coalition for transparency and anti-corruption has put the UK "under review"

This is a body the UK helped set up and which it funds with £2m+ a year

@KevKeith told me it was "shameful"
news.sky.com/story/uk-gover…
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Its intervention means the UK will become the ninth of its 78 members to go under review, joining a list that includes Bulgaria, Malawi and Malta
news.sky.com/story/uk-gover…
When the Open Government Partnership was set up in 2011, the UK really was the world leader in open government

Now... not so much
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Last week I reported on a trove of government emails which showed how Palantir wooed the NHS before winning its first ever contract

There were watermelon cocktails. It was a whole thing

But there was one set of emails I wasn't able to get into

🧵👇
news.sky.com/story/nhs-faci…
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It took place here, at Palantir’s pavilion at the World Economic Forum in Davos
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Here she is in the Times, from when she was British consul general in New York
thetimes.co.uk/article/model-…
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