Guess which company just won a £2.4 million government contract for ‘Online Harms Data Transformation’? Go on. GUESS
Congratulations to all those who guessed Faculty AI. The firm that has refused to answer any & all questions about what it did with data in EUref, whose founder is friends with Dominic Cummings & whose brother (& ex-director) now sits in the Cabinet Office.
And yes before the trolls arrive, GMG Ventures which is part of @guardian has shares in this company. No I don’t know why. Suggest you ask them
I guess Matt Hancock’s pub landlord must have missed the deadline date
'In recent months the firm has won a £2.3 million contract to support the NHS’ ‘artificial intelligence lab’, as well as a £2 million deal with the Home Office’s ‘innovation law enforcement’ division' bylinetimes.com/?p=84793
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This is a good, careful, exhaustingly researched piece by @klonick. That Facebook, Nick Clegg & the entire Oversight Board must be absolutely thrilled with. The ultimate imprimatur of legitimacy: an insider access piece in the pages of @newyorker. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
Here's a few things not in the piece. Meet Brent Harris. The man with the granola bar. You know what else Brent Harris did? He repeatedly pressured the funders of @FBoversight into withdrawing their support & killing the Real Facebook Oversight Board before birth.
Brent Harris's boss is Nick Clegg and Nick Clegg's boss is Mark Zuckerberg and as @klonick says here, decisions about the Oversight Board were being taken at the top.
NEW: Arron Banks's LeaveEU & Eldon Insurance vs the Information Commissioner.
This is the appeal of a failed appeal against the ICO for finding LeaveEU & Eldon in breach of the law in Feb 19.
'The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to dismiss these appeals'
An excerpt from the judgement:
'Mr Banks' letter to the Information Commissioner admitting that he had been untruthful in the past was hardly likely to assuage all regulatory concerns especially as it was followed by his letter of bullying tone which we quote at paragraph 11'
Since all my tweets are apparently being taken down & will be used as potential evidence against me in the upcoming legal case Banks is bringing against me, I'd like to point out that I've tweeted this because it literally hasn't been reported anywhere else
Where is parliament? Tomorrow is an absolutely critical day. There are still a few key things we can do to prevent 10000s of deaths. But we have to act now. Boris Johnson has proved himself utterly inadequate to the task. We need parliament. Where is it?
This is a national crisis. @Keir_Starmer@EdwardJDavey@Ianblackford_MP Where are you? You were too late in March. And you’re too late now. Where are the calls for parliament to be recalled? You know Boris Johnson is failing. But by your silence, you are too
We’re not even back to where we were in early March. We’re in a much worse place. The only thing I can think to do is amplify the voices of experts. Who are telling us & the UK govt that we are heading into disaster.
2) @chrischirp. Professor of operational research. Member of Independent SAGE. Her latest thread. This thing is out of control & the government has no plan:
3) @GabrielScally, another professor of public health & a member of @IndependentSage, has been banging this drum for weeks. He said in no uncertain terms that Christmas mixing would be a disastrous policy. And it was. But delaying dealing with it now is just compounding problem:
I keep coming back to this thread by epidemiologist @dgurdasani1. The gravity of the situation we find ourselves in & the government’s failure to intellectually grasp what is happening...is honestly terrifying. We are on the cusp of a whole new catastrophe.
Independent SAGE published this yesterday. The only option left it says is full lockdown now. What @dgurdasani1 explains so well is why closing schools is so vital. And why failing to do so now will have such a devastating outsized impact