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13 May, 7 tweets, 6 min read
And before I knock it on the head for the night, an #OnlineSafetyBill compilation [Thread].

The draft Bill itself and associated documents are here:

gov.uk/government/pub… Image
First up, the eagle eyes of @e3i5 - though even he seems to have developed a headache around §46(4)...

And a statement and [Thread] from our friends at @BigBrotherWatch:

Oh dear. @EdinaRl seems distinctly underwhelmed...



...as does @PaulbernalUK:

And the good folks at @isoceurope tell it like it is 👏👏👏

internetsociety.org/news/statement… Image
And I'll pause for now at this epic, coffee-fuelled #OnlineSafetyBill [Thread] of key points from @ellenejudson at @Demos:



(Much) more to come, no doubt...
A 'first impressions' post by @cyberleagle on (amongst other things) the conflict between content #monitoring and #removal obligations vs #FreedomOfExpression.

Also, what does the Government actually *mean* by #safety and #harm?

cyberleagle.com/2021/05/harm-v…

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15 May
I'm afraid not. For the 2021 #GPdata grab, to prevent your entire GP history being copied by @NHSDigital you must ask your GP to add a 'Type 1' opt-out to your GP record.

The official form to do that is here:
nhs-prod.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/conte…

Or you can use ours:
medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
The GP Privacy Notice* issued by @NHSDigital is on first glance a bit confusing, suggesting you can do a #Type1 "or" a #NationalDataOptOut - but (as the Notice goes on to explain) the latter WILL NOT STOP your #GPdata from being taken...

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*digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor… Image
...and if you do not opt out using a #Type1 to your GP before data is first extracted (from 1 July 2021*) then your entire GP history will be taken on first upload - and will NEVER be deleted!

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*Hence the 23 June 2021 deadline, so your opt-out form(s) can be processed in time.
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15 May
While I appreciate it won't have been everywhere, in my town GP practices have been doing flu jabs then COVID jabs round the clock *for months* while offering phone and F2F appointments, safely, when needed.

WTF does @NHSEngland think has been going on?

england.nhs.uk/wp-content/upl…
Powerful response from Local Medical Committee to @NHSEngland's tone-deaf letter:



Blaming GPs for *its own policies*
england.nhs.uk/gp/digital-fir…

which it clearly intends to pursue
gponline.com/nhs-england-pl…

...is the height of #hypocrisy.

But nothing new.
Also this 👇 and rest of [Thread]:



Too many forget that @NHSEngland is NOT 'the NHS in England' but rather the #NHS #CommissioningBoard - as the letter about its renaming in 2013 made crystal clear:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Image
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5 Apr
Oh boy! We're gonna have some fun with this one 🤣

@DHSCgovuk finally responded (after FOUR delays) to my #FOI request about the #JointBiosecurityCentre 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

TL;DR: Contradicting its own published statements, official procedures & Codes, #DHSC says it doesn't hold anything...
Here is @DHSCgovuk's response:

whatdotheyknow.com/request/696875…

and, for reference, here is a snapshot of the GOV.UK page about #JBC, taken 4 days after #DHSC's reply:

web.archive.org/web/2021040210…

So, what did DHSC say? I asked for a copy of the "establishing document"...
...for the #JointBiosecurityCentre, a £9 BILLION* new directorate** of @DHSCgovuk, and...

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*According @CMO_England's evidence to Parliament last July:
researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

**According to its webpage, "#JBC was established as a new #directorate within DHSC on 1 June 2020".
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4 Apr
Predictably, @Facebook is acting as if its liability ended when it "patched the vulnerability" in its systems which allowed the exfiltration of *half a billion* people's personal details 🤦🏻‍♂️🤬

If @ICOnews & @DPCIreland fail to act, then what is the literal bloody point of them? Image
If 'data is the new oil' - it isn't, but bear with me - then this ONGOING #privacy disaster is the #DeepwaterHorizon of data breaches.

@bp_plc had to set up a $20 billion #compensation fund to pay for damage for which it was responsible; why should @Facebook get away with this?
RIGHT NOW @Facebook should be sending messages to all its affected users, (a) apologising for its negligence/incompetence, (b) telling them what they can do to keep themselves safe, and (c) offering to compensate people for the difficulties it's causing them.

Of course it won't.
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3 Apr
Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry (with laughter).

By the time #VaccinePassports are ready, they will be absolutely pointless! Because, as we've said all along, once enough folks have been #vaccinated there'll be no need for them...

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/0… Image
...'cos that's the whole *point* of #HerdImmunity (done the right way), unless the Government's going to start demanding we have #MMRpassports, #FluPassports and the like?

This latest bit of #COVIDtheatre just turned into #farce - unless, of course, there's an ulterior motive...
...like, for example, @DCMS's current push to get everyone to adopt its risible #DigitalIdentity "#TrustFramework":
gov.uk/government/pub…

or @GDSTeam's "#SingleSignOn", the architecture of which looks suspiciously like a #NationalIdentityRegister:

insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2021/01/07/the… Image
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13 Mar
*sigh*

Opening what I suspect will become a very long [Thread] on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (#PCSCBill) which, having been introduced last Tuesday, gets its #SecondReading *next* Tuesday - #precipitous, to say the least...

bills.parliament.uk/bills/2839
While it is all too often merely lip service, the Ministerial statement of #HumanRights compliance on the cover of this Bill 👇 is particularly #hypocritical, given its actual contents...
Many have been writing about the impact of this proposed legislation on lawful #protest, notably @IanDunt...

politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…

...who, critically, picks up on the extraordinary #HenryVIII power @pritipatel is trying to grab.

(Let's hope THAT one gets struck quickly!)
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