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16 Jun, 11 tweets, 12 min read
1/. I am at #CogX2021 for @MattHancock’s first public appearance - Live Tweeting from the front row

Oh dear! He’s just started & has lost his voice lost his voice

Short pause...
#MattHancock #COVID19 #coronavirus #Genomics #GenomeUK
2/. Matt’s back!

@MattHancock has regained his voice & is continuing his keynote address at #CogX2021

A friend just DMed:

“Maybe he lost his voice when he you in the front row & realised you’re going to ask him about the links btw #Palantir #FacultyAI & #CambridgeAnalytica!”
3/. #MattHancock says that he thinks that GP’s having exclusive control of patient data is “undemocratic”

Instead he says he wants every citizen to control their own data(!?)

He says people are enthusiastic about sharing their health data as long as privacy is assured #CogX2021
4/. “NHS data should be available for researchers who are trusted”@MattHancock

In Sept 2020, the Dept of Trade sent out an “invitation to invest” offering
companies “expanding access to rich longitudinal data from the NHS’s 65 million patients”

The opt out deadline was 30/9/20
5/. According to NHS’s website opting out WASN’T possible during a pandemic

Does this mean the govt have been sharing sharing our NHS health data with private companies for 8 months?

Is this the #DataGrab no one is talking about?

#Palantir & #FacultyAI run the COVID data store
6/. “I want to be able to incentivise all sorts of organisations to be able to put the resources in to develop insights”

Why doesn’t @MattHancock EVER mention #GeneomeUK, the 10 year strategy that’ll transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the entire programme for govt?
7/. Shame! @MattHancock wraps up a short Q&A with @AlexandraMousav without taking questions from the floor

As trickle of applause spreads across the room, the moderator spots a man on the back row who is praying

“Bloody praying for us all” you can hear me mutter
#CogX2021 #CogX
8/. Had @MattHancock taken questions I had some good ones for him

Ones he’s yet to be asked

I decided to follow him out the lecture theatre to see whether he might have time for a quick question: a follow-up to the one he side-stepped when @DawnButlerBrent asked him last week👇
9/. I followed @MattHancock down the stairs of the Aga Khan Centre

He wasn't wearing a mask!

Incredible! The Health Secretary at a public event, breaching the #COVID19 rules that everyone else here was adhering too.
#Coronavirus #Corona #COVID #GenomeUK
10/. The NHS = most trusted brand in Britain

Cambridge Analytica = least trusted

Yet two companies with links to #CambridgeAnalytica run the NHS data store

Coming up👇a Q&A (live-streamed) with Marc Warner & Jann Tallin, founders of #FacultyAI (who also worked on Leave EU).
11/. Today wasn’t the first time I’ve been unimpressed by #MattHancock

I saw him at #CogX in 2019, just before he pulled out of the Tory leadership race (after only getting 20 votes)

Over the past 16 months, I’ve been unimpressed by him every single day.

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Disturbing footage of @BBCNewsnight’s Nick Watt, being pursued by anti-lockdown protesters

@umairh wrote recently “Britain — the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one — was put to the torch. It became a nation afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism”
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The problem is, once the genie has been let out the bottle, it’s hard to put it back in.
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How they laughed at Hitler in 1923 when he marched on a Munich beer hall with his comedic moustache

Rule by Decree introduced after the fire wasn’t so funny!
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14 Jun
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write; they will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, & relearn”

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11 Jun
1/. It isn’t remotely credible that #Hancock had no idea of the links btw #Palantir & #FacultyAI - who run the NHS #COVID data store - & #CambridgeAnalytica

And yet, had due diligence been done, Palantir wouldn’t have been embedded at the heart of the NHS
2/. It also isn’t remotely credible (or intelligible) that #Cummings had no knowledge of what #Palantir are doing in the NHS “other than on ICU bed capacity”

It also isn’t credible when he claims he thinks #FacultyAI “do not have personalised data at all”
3/. Two questions by about #Palantir & #FacultyAI

Two garbled, nonsensical answers from @MattHancock & @Dominic2306

It’s a shame it’s taken 16 months before these question have finally been asked

It’s a shame the media still ignore it

But as this👇shows, Palantir are central.
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10 Jun
“We were guided by the science. We didn't always follow the science" @MattHancock

So @BorisJohnson was lying when he said “we stuck to the science like glue”

Were they following the cod behavioural science of Halpern’s Nudge Unit & the ‘data science’ of #Palantir & #FacultyAI?
2/. On 13/5/20, I broke the #CareHomeScandal

On 2/4/20 the govt had INSTRUCTED hospitals to send people “who may have #COVID19” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING

The govt KNEW about asymptomatic transmission in Jan/Feb 2020

The question is which Minister signed off this directive.
3/. Hancock claims that no one knew about ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD

This is not true

The govt knew asymptomatic transmission of #COVID19 was likely in Jan & had this confirmed in Feb

SAGE minutes on 28 January 2020 state that early indications suggest there was asymptomatic spread.
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7 Jun
All roads lead to genomics

Dido Harding’s was chair of Genomics England

Palantir rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica to scrape data

Is the #NHSDataGrab really about about population-wide genomic data?

Complete control?

Bell-Curve eugenicist’s wet dream?
“We could close our eyes & pretend that contrary to all the evidence, #Palantir is a rights-respecting company or we can call this façade what it is: another company placing profit over people, no matter the human cost.” Michael Kleinman, @amnestyusa
The #NHSDataGrab has been underway since Oct 2020 (see Tweet👇)

Why was it ignored for the last 8 months?

News editors, journalists & politicians appeared to be unwilling to report it

It’s great that the #PalantirPlan is now getting wide coverage, but are we already too late?
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