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This is WILD. I’ve never seen this clip before. Watch Dido Harding - revealed today as potential new head of NHS - chat to Cambridge Analytica’s Alexander Nix about the great potential of data exploitation 😱😱😱 #NHSDataGrab
What’s extraordinary is that it’s Cambridge Analytica’s Nix that points out that in UK we require OPT-IN consent to share people’s data.
Which is precisely what #NHSDataGrab is not doing. That requires OPT-OUT consent. For more, read this:
What’s even more wild to me is Dido Harding’s role in all this. She makes a passing appearance in this newsletter because of her previous role as chair of Genomics England (after previously heading up NHS Improvement).
But this is what #NHSDataGrab is all about: it’s data gold.
I don’t know how many ways there are of saying this but listen to the scientists. We are at another critical moment. There is very bad news overnight from Lancet study of Pfizer & variant. The govt is literally burying bad news on spread in schools. TAKE CARE
Good morning. Your government is suppressing evidence of the spread of the new variant in schools. This has been going on for weeks. We know it has this data. We know it is refusing to publish it. WHY??
Read @chrischirp's thread.
The consequences of this suppression of data are potentially deadly. Schools are reservoirs of the unvaxxed. If the variant is spreading, this is where it's happening. That we're allowing govt to do this AGAIN is unforgiveable
I still can’t believe Public Health England did this. They held a press conference y’day trumpeting ‘good news’ with a 10.30pm embargo. And then dumped long overdue critical data showing devastating news about spread of variant at exactly same time on Sat night. Absolutely stinks
Here’s @chrischirp’s reaction. The headline is that this is an absolute emergency.
A total scandal that body in charge of our public health is playing cheap, shitty politics with our public health. I sincerely hope that PHE director @SMHopkins is asked some hard questions today
AND IT WORKED. Look at that headline. This is most definitely *not* the headline news today. The virus is now 50% of sequenced cases. SAGE warned this week that a third wave could be worst yet. The news is truly awful. But PHE has apparently played active role in covering it up
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Everyone has their limit. And mine came last week. The absolute obscenity that is Voter ID and the idea that we need it combat non-existent election fraud. By a PM whose Brexit campaign LITERALLY COMMITTED ELECTION FRAUD.
I doubt anyone in US is paying attention to a 30-yr-old British murder, but maybe you should. An inquiry into r’ship between Rupert Murdoch’s News International & London police has been mysteriously buried..by a politician who’s friends with Rupert Murdoch theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
Even by the standards of what is happening in Britain right now, the details are pretty amazing. This is Home Office minister Priti Patel at Rupert Murdoch’s wedding. How are they even friends??
What possible motive does Rupert Murdoch’s friend Priti Patel have to block an independent report into police corruption that’s been *eight years* in the making...that might implicate Rupert Murdoch? bylinetimes.com/2021/05/19/did…