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]:
Nah. This is another puff piece on the #WaitingList pilot, details of which @NHSEngland published - without daring to mention @PalantirTech - over ten months ago...
To be clear, 30 individual NHS Trusts* are using #Palantir#Foundry to manage elective care waiting lists, not patients' entire medical histories - largely by what Ministers have called "cleansing" the data:
Why is this so important? Because #SharedCareRecords - which every new #ICS* is supposed to have - include your #GPdata, which @NHSEngland has been trying to get hold of for years (most recently last summer)...
So let’s talk about where things got up to with your #HealthData, before Rishi Sunak started talking about the need to generate trust in Government with “#integrity” and “#accountability”…
N.B. The chair of NHS Digital announced today’s meeting would be the last public meeting of the Board...
With the news that the Government is rushing through @NHSEngland’s takeover of the statutory safe haven (@NHSDigital) with about the level of planning that went into the 'fiscal event', where exactly *are* things as the former/new Sec State starts work?
First, beginning on page 158, are some Directions that @NHSEngland must know will be HIGHLY controversial - given they are telling @NHSDigital to use @PalantirTech's #Foundry to collect *patient level identifiable data* from hospitals...
I'll tweet as I do a read-through, but even these first two paragraphs are incoherent, e.g. "...in a way that will enable." Enable what?
And if @NHSEngland Directs NHSD to use #Palantir, NHSE is *determining the purposes and means of processing* - i.e. it is a #DataController...