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Big political announcement yesterday about the contract-tracing app. But there’s a pattern here. Why is Britain - again - ignoring global consensus to go it alone? Why @MattHancock is app using *self-reported symptoms*? Why centralised not decentralised?
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
It’s not just that it needs more people to download it than use WhatsApp. It’s that it’s asking people to take on trust that someone they may not know has accurately reported their symptoms & that those symptoms are in fact COVID-19. That’s a lot of trust.
Is it going to work? It’s really hard to see how. And all this is *before* you consider @RaviNa1k & @rydermc’s team suggesting it may be illegal...

theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
I’ve put all that first. So that even if you don’t care about the creepy surveillance aspects or the secret data deals govt has done with Vote Leave firm & the one that’s allied to Trump, you should maybe care about the fact it seems highly unlikely it’ll keep your granny alive
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I can’t sleep so here’s a story in 4 screenshots. We first learned of new ‘Joint Biosecurity Centre’ on Sun. On Tues, that 4 friends of Gove/Cummings appointed to key roles in Cabinet Office. Today we learn ‘Biosecurity’ = counterterror/health mash-up. Based in Cabinet Office
Here’s the report by @dansabbagh & @iansample. Friend of Boris Johnson, son of Douglas Hurd counter terror chief in charge

‘Speaking at the launch of the Independent SAGE report, @AllysonPollock said ‘Even the term biosecurity is really worrying’

theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
A major surveillance apparatus has literally been set up overnight in the Cabinet Office. At *exactly* same time Gove & Cummings made 4 political appointees - friends - to senior oversight roles in the Cabinet Office. This cannot be ok. @Keir_Starmer needs to be all over this
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Um. Did anyone know that the cabinet office has ‘non-exec directors’? 4 new ones, all friends of Cummings: 1) ex commissioner of force that dropped investigation into Vote Leave. 2) Chair of Vote Leave. 3) Digital director of Vote Leave 4) someone else
spectator.co.uk/article/boris-…
So to recap, new ‘non-executive director’ of Cabinet Office was chair of organisation found to have committed electoral fraud. And Cabinet Office which last time I checked was part of the Civil Service now has political appointees. Is anyone keeping track of this stuff?
STOP PRESS! The 4th non-exec director appointed to cabinet office? The one who isn’t the ex-chair of Vote Leave, the ex-digital director of Vote Leave, or the ex-head of the police force that dropped its investigation into Vote Leave? Turns out she’s Michael Gove’s ex-girlfriend
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This isn’t a strategy. It’s a communications disaster.
Telegraph reports ‘stay home’ slogan to be dropped for this. I really hope @Keir_Starmer & team consider emergency intervention tomorrow. Because this isn’t just inadequate or incompetent, it’s surely another deadly mistake? Confusing, meaningless, incomprehensible, dangerous
We are entering the next stage of the pandemic: in which it becomes an information crisis as well as a health one. And increasingly, one of the main sources of disinformation is the government. Every aspect of this is dangerous & corrosive.
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