“the govt learned its lesson [from care.data]. Which is to say that 8 years on it’s doing same thing, only in less time, without public awareness campaign, with trickier opt-out, & in the middle of a global pandemic. Have you, at some level, got to admire the work?”
“difficult to summon anything other than deep suspicion, born of bitter experience, about fact that @NHSDigital has barely informed GPs, waiting till last minute to order them to submit records of every patient, where they’ll become permanent & irreversible part of new database”
“According to the very much un-promoted page on the NHS website, the NHS will be able to unlock the pseudonymisation codes ‘in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason’.”
“Should you feel you’d like to opt out, if only to buy time and transparency, here’s where to go [link]. If there’s nothing for us to worry our pretty little heads about, perhaps the government would at least do us the courtesy of openly explaining why.”

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6 Jun
“Compounding the ill-feeling is the belief that while the Commission, according to officials, is working flat out to find flexibilities, the UK is either dragging its feet on implementing the Protocol, or publicly criticising the EU’s interpretation of it.”
“The UK pushed for the EU to agree an equivalence deal, whereby UK food standards are accepted as similar to EU ones…the EU rejected this, arguing that the UK had pledged to diverge from EU standards”
“Instead, EU has urged UK to consider SPS agreement, aligning with EU’s food safety & animal health rules, even temporarily, in order to do away with 80% of checks on the Irish Sea. London has refused to consider this.”

So Johnson is prioritising chlorinated chicken over NI
Read 7 tweets
3 Jun
.@LaylaMoran:
“It is staggering that Heathrow only this week announced that it has received the government support needed to ensure travellers arriving from red list countries have a separate terminal, rather than waiting alongside those from green and amber list countries.”
“Even now, those arriving from red list countries who have transited via another destination are being allowed to mix with others, & airports are warning of lengthy queues as internat travel reopens. The govt must fix this gaping flaw in our defences against covid immediately”
.@LaylaMoran:
“The next few months could define so much of what happens next, and yet the government seems incapable of stepping up and providing the global leadership we need. Time is running out for them to listen to scrutiny, learn lessons and lead.”
Read 4 tweets
26 May
.@docneilb:
care.data, the disastrous data-grab project scrapped back in 2016, is back from the dead. And it's bigger than before.”
“millions of people simply will not have a clue that this is happening.
Their right to be informed is not being upheld. As a consquence, they will not be afforded the right to object/opt-out. No radio or TV ads, no letters to individuals, no junk mail to households. On the quiet”
“care.data2 is not about information sharing between healthcare professionals.
It is about data extraction, linkage and analysis: in other words, data mining.”
Read 9 tweets
22 May
“The former sub-postmaster spent 18 months behind bars, was declared bankrupt and since coming out of prison has struggled to find work. He and Balbinder have had to sell their home and now rely on benefits.”

(His outrageous fraud conviction was one of those quashed by Ct App)
“The story of how a great British institution unfairly criminalised hundreds of law-abiding citizens is an astonishing tale of corporate cover-up, political mismanagement and personal injustice.”

There needs to be not only a full public inquiry, but prosecutions of PO bosses
“I still can’t believe we’re living in the UK and this kind of thing goes on. We were guilty until we could prove our innocence.”
Read 4 tweets
14 Mar
Key point:
‘The Judge confirmed that @ReclaimTS’ assessment of
the law is correct: not all protest is, or can be treated as, illegal
under the Tier 4 rules.’
“unless it is necessary and proportionate to prevent persons gathering to exercise their right to freedom of expression and assembly, having regard to the individual facts and circumstances of the protest in question, such a protest is not prohibited by the Tier 4 regulations”
“this means that Arts 10 & 11 require police to facilitate & uphold the right to protest and that they only prevent it where, following a proper assessment, this is necessary and proportionate in the particular circumstances of the
protest in question”
Read 5 tweets
12 Mar
I’m sure there is not the slightest reason to worry about Tory govt plans to scrap EU regs post-Brexit to ‘reduce burdens’ on City firms in order to ‘improve its competitiveness’. ft.com/content/387084…
“the City - ever quick to scent an opportunity - is positioning itself to have greater influence over the reshaping of the post-Brexit rulebook”
ft.com/content/199e20…
“Proposals by Lord Hill, former EU fin servs commissioner leading govt’s review into City, to change UK listing rules have been welcomed by financiers keen to attract more flotations, but questioned by investors who fear the London market’s high standards are being compromised.”
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