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“Washington has already made clear it wants unrestricted access to Britain’s 55 mill health records as part of any post-Brexit trade agreement...acquisition of as much UK medical data as possible is top priority for the US drugs industry.” theguardian.com/technology/202…
“.@EinsteinsAttic Phil Booth, coordinator of @medConfidential, which campaigns for the privacy of health data, said the public was being betrayed by claims that the information could not be linked back to individuals.”
Booth added: “Following @ICO’s code of practice doesn’t mean data is necessarily anonymous; 1 of most common methods of ‘anonymisation’ – use of pseudonyms to obscure some bits of info – means that data still identifiable; @ICOnews
herself says must be considered pers data.”
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Sarah Ludford 🔶🔶#FBPE Girly Swot🕷
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“In the trenches on the Western Front, British Tommies sang their darkly ironic hymn to futility: ‘We’re here because/We’re here because/We’re here because/ We’re here’.” irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…
“the great allure of promise to Get Brexit Done was in the idea of ‘done’ meaning not just achieved but ‘done with’ – finished, dead, laid to rest. It recast 2016-19 no longer as glorious struggle for a joyful emancipation, but as bad trip from which everyone had to come down.”
“In the ultimate irony, Brexit has ceased to be a release from the EU and has become a release from itself. Brexit has morphed from Let My People Go to Let My People Stop Banging On About Brexit.”
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Shocking that “London’s ⁦@metpoliceuk⁩ will start using live facial recognition on the capital’s streets, ignoring concerns from politicians, data regulators & human rights groups over the highly invasive and often inaccurate biometric technology.”
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“The decision follows last week’s announcement by the @EU_Commission that it was considering banning facial recognition technology across the bloc for 5 years while policymakers create a regulatory framework.”

So privacy invasion is a #Brexit benefit, eh?
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“Aside from Orwellian nature, this tech is particularly bad news if you’re a woman or person of colour. It’s been known to misidentify these groups, meaning you’re more likely to be stopped, questioned and searched by the police if you’re a woman or if you’re BAME”
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My criticism of the BBC’s coverage of the EU & more recently #Brexit does not @huwbbc have ‘the deliberate aim of undermining & delegitimising’ but is very longstanding, based on the BBC’s failure to make its political journalists understand & therefore properly report the EU
To save his blushes, I will not name the BBC Westminster correspondent who was sent to Brussels 6 weeks before the 2014 Euro-elections to cover them at EU end. I spent an hour trying to explain the basics of EU functioning to him, he hadn’t a clue and it was Ladybird book level.
Or the one sent much earlier as Europe editor who I only saw once in 3 years in the Parliament; after that (even though we MEPs had ‘co-decision’ powers on laws), this person found the Council & Commission a much easier, less complicated, gig
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How significant is Boris Johnson meeting with new European Commission President @vonderleyen this afternoon? It’s significant in that it’s their first face-to-face in their new roles BUT today does not mark start of post #Brexit trade talks. Why? /1
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So.. back to the backstop: Clearly the official EU line is “We’re not budging. The #Brexit Withdrawal Agreement was signed off by Theresa May and cabinet. End of story.” And there is 100% EU sincerity they would love not to have to discuss the thorny issue ever again. But.. /1
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Amid reports that #UK PM @theresa_may hopes to renegotiate the "backstop" provision on the Northern Ireland border, let's recall that she already made clear what she wants in her letter to #EU leaders before disastrously losing the #Brexit Withdrawal Treaty ratification vote. 1/
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on the duration of the usage of the backstop, have been raised and discussed in Parliament. We have also raised them previously in negotiations." So there are her proposals, i.e. the EU should basically just cave on backstop in face of House of Commons defeat. But but but ... 3/
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The EU is in watch and wait mode but this is some of the thinking going on behind the scenes ahead of tonight’s vote in parliament #Brexit 1
EU leaders have no Plan B up their sleeve(s). They will only BEGIN to start talking together about a What Next after tonight’s vote 2
The EU sees no point in the PM flying out here this week if the #Brexit deal suffers a huge defeat today in parliament. EU leaders have nothing ready to say to her 3
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Jon Worth
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1/ By chance I stumbled across European Commission’s “Notice to Stakeholders - Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU Food Law” 🍔 🥕 🥩 - PDF here ec.europa.eu/food/sites/foo…
2/ This document is similar to one about road transport 🚗 🚛 🚌 that I blogged about here: jonworth.eu/uk-remain-eu-e… Formally written, but horrible in its complexity when you think of it. Welcome to the consequences of #Brexit!
3/ It starts with an overview of 🇪🇺 Food Law - Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods, 609/2013 on food intended for infants, 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed... It goes on and on. 📑 📑 📑
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