So as @MattHancock continues to say there are *no privacy issues* with the new @NHSX #tracingApp, and there are *no need for legislation*, let’s outline some reasons why he should change his mind.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5801/jtse…
publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5801/jtse…
(1) Create Public trust
@MattHancock and @NHSX need trust so people use the App. It is no use telling people they are scaremongering as there are technical and legal means for the data to be acquired and reused.
@MattHancock and @NHSX need trust so people use the App. It is no use telling people they are scaremongering as there are technical and legal means for the data to be acquired and reused.
(2) Stop @ukhomeoffice getting the data
The Home Office has plenty of legal means to acquire the database and repurpose it to hunt down people it believes are breaking immigration rules.
This needs to be barred. I guess this didn’t come up in the equality focus groups?
The Home Office has plenty of legal means to acquire the database and repurpose it to hunt down people it believes are breaking immigration rules.
This needs to be barred. I guess this didn’t come up in the equality focus groups?
(3) Stop the Police getting the data
The police have powers to ask for data like this under the Investigatory Powers Act. They would find it useful. They have technical capabilities to relink identifiers to individuals.
The police need to be barred from access.
The police have powers to ask for data like this under the Investigatory Powers Act. They would find it useful. They have technical capabilities to relink identifiers to individuals.
The police need to be barred from access.
(4) Stop @GCHQ and MI5 getting the data
The Investigatory Powers Act lets agencies obtain “bulk datasets” for national security, such as #COVID19 or terrorism. Here is plenty of “hay” for their “haystack”. Am I a needle?
Security agencies need to be barred from access.
The Investigatory Powers Act lets agencies obtain “bulk datasets” for national security, such as #COVID19 or terrorism. Here is plenty of “hay” for their “haystack”. Am I a needle?
Security agencies need to be barred from access.
(5) Stop ongoing research and commercial research
The @NHSX has already expressed interested in keeping the dataset. There is no opt out.
Either ban this like Australia, or set the limits out in law.
The @NHSX has already expressed interested in keeping the dataset. There is no opt out.
Either ban this like Australia, or set the limits out in law.
(6) The technical way to protect privacy has not been taken up
Proximity data need *not be collected at all* in the decentralised model.
If this is not done, the case for legal protection is much higher. Legal protection is all we have.
Proximity data need *not be collected at all* in the decentralised model.
If this is not done, the case for legal protection is much higher. Legal protection is all we have.
(7) Stop Mission creep
Priorities change, ideas change, uses change. Stop use of the App becoming volo-compulsory, compulsory within companies. Stop the App and the data being integrated into Immunity Passports.
Set it out in statute.
Priorities change, ideas change, uses change. Stop use of the App becoming volo-compulsory, compulsory within companies. Stop the App and the data being integrated into Immunity Passports.
Set it out in statute.
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