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27 Jan, 7 tweets, 6 min read
"Like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal", but with dogs!

@reddit-weaponised #DayTrading against institutional #ShortSellers might be funny, but it's no joke; #disinformation at web scale disrupts #media, #democracy and even the #market...

#InformationRevolution, baby!
P.S. If you've not been following $GME (#GameStop) then @theipaper has a quick explainer:

inews.co.uk/news/business/…
And as with all instances of #MarketManipulation👇, #CuiBono?



Cc: @SEC_Enforcement
And a #MoralityTale...



HT @Asher_Wolf
Oops!

And if you want a #LongRead [Thread] that may make your head spin a bit, @doctorow's got your back:



TL;DR: #TheHouseAlwaysWins
Then there's this 👇 (and rest of [Thread].)

After #ConsumerBoycotts and hand-wavy #Occupations comes full-on #MarketWarfare!

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30 Jan
I have a few questions on the whole #Article16 row, and row-back.

Though I understand it's FAR more exciting to report on the inevitable political #PileOn / #AxeGrinding / #CasusBelli, there is actually an agreed Protocol and procedures.

So...
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-558655…
1a) Have folks read #Article16 of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland?

It's on p13 of this PDF: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… and is quite short [left pic].

1b) Have they read Annex 7 [right pic, p62 of PDF] which describes the procedures to be followed? ImageImage
Assuming the answers to (1a) & (1b) are Yes:

2) Given the EU appears to have considered these to be "exceptional circumstances" was the UK notified via the #JointCommittee, and was all relevant information provided?

(Papers should be here, eventually: ec.europa.eu/info/relations…)
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28 Jan
*sigh*

Tony's STILL banging on about #IDcards, nearly 20yrs later - 'cos make no mistake, that's what #VaccinePassports will become.

Just as WWII's [left 👇] became @10DowningStreet/@ukhomeoffice's [right 👇] with a centralised #biometric #NationalIdentityRegister behind it... ImageImage
...so will #YellowCards [left 👇] morph into 'just an #app on your #phone' [right 👇] - claimed to be 'not #mandatory', of course (unless you want to live your life, work or travel...) and with the centralised #biometric #registration Government has wanted all along. ImageImage
So here's a few questions the #HealthPassport headbangers must answer:

1a) When Heathrow re-opens, given (current) #vaccines don't prevent #transmission, aren't people still going to have to be #tested?

1b) If people have to be tested anyway, what's the point of the 'passport'?
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1 Nov 20
Apropos of @thesundaytimes article, a few thoughts: firstly, as I tweeted 2 days ago 👇 & in stark contrast to the #transparency around other tech/data intitiatives - *cough* @NHSEngland #DataStore *cough* - the team published a blog on what it was doing:

healthtech.blog.gov.uk/2020/10/29/how…
In this blog, the app team gave an explanation of the latest changes it had made - including a reduction in the #RiskThreshold, which took account of TWO factors: the inclusion of a measure of #infectiousness in the API *and* a new #distance algorithm...

healthtech.blog.gov.uk/2020/10/29/how…
In case folks aren't aware, @Google & @Apple's #ExposureNotification API is quite frequently updated. As the #Android developer pages (and #nhsxCOVID18app's blog) say, the #infectiousness field was only added at v1.6; with functionality changing at 1.7 👇

developers.google.com/android/exposu…
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26 Sep 20
So the #nhsxCOVID19app currently cannot handle a positive test result from 32.2% of labs, i.e. the whole of pillar 1:

gov.uk/government/pub…

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
Oh, and the app cannot currently handle a #negative test result (e.g. to shut off the #SelfIsolation countdown) from any lab at all!

bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

Good that @DHSCgovuk will "update" this, but when? And why didn't it do so when we pointed this out before launch?
The sooner all parts of government (and Government too) recognise that some of us aren't *just* "#privacy advocates" - and that we understand many aspects of #digital / #technosocial #systems as well as (if not better than) they do, the better things might be.
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25 Sep 20
Let me correct that for you, @FBOversight: "Our pitch-deck alleges @Facebook's @OversightBoard is little more than a corporate whitewashing exercise."

@axios mangled the write-up, but YOU just tweeted #disinformation.

Who on your Board signed that off?
nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
This - to 'counter spin' - is a rather unfortunate line to take in the circumstances...

*sigh*

And now @Facebook's Policy Communications Manager @andymstone wades in, calling @FBoversight a "fake board":



Another reason why it's so important not to screw up straight out of the starting gate...
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24 Sep 20
Helpful #nhsxCOVID19app explainer [Thread] 👇 from @hadleybeeman.

For more technical background, see github.com/nhsx/covid19-a… for, e.g. system architecture (v3) and (predominantly @AWS) infrastructure.

Of course, we're still waiting for the results of the trials...
...and, as the BBC's write-up concludes, evidence that #ExposureNotification works in practice is "scant" - in ALL countries attempting it, not just the UK:

bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

Efficacy (as in NZ) will most likely come from #QRcheckin, which could've been done months ago.
Bottom line, will I be downloading it? Already have - as I did with the other versions, to see what they did.

Will I be using it? Probably. Not least to avoid having to hand over personal details; combined with regular data deletes/resets.

Will I trust it to keep me safe? No...
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