Would you trust this man with your data? Why doesn't this new strategy address any of the concerns raised by doctors & campaigners? How will the govt make it secure? Who will have access to it? This is propaganda pure & simple.
The government paused the roll-out to this because of the public's shock & concern that it was being carried out at high speed, with no publicity & no patient consent. But this is just a white wash.
He literally stood in that exact same spot in front of that exact same picture when he said he threw a protective ring around care homes. We know how that turned out. @allthecitizens part of coalition of orgs with @Foxglovelegal taking urgent legal advice today.
Troubling thread from @marcus_baw that unpicks what is going on elsewhere with data in NHS & how this #NHSDataGrab fits in
And here's @medconfidential's considered view. It's alarmed by the reference in the doc to 'secondary legislation' it plans to introduce to enable sharing *after* it's got your data
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‘It turns on whether there a relevant obligation under article 3,’ says the judge interrupting Richard Hermer’s opening submission
‘Presently limited info in public do@sin about Russian involvement. But info there is is that we have subjected to determined attacks designed to undermine the integrity of our elections’ - Richard Hermer
Not that it isn't crap. It is. It's just also going to be a massively distorted influence in our already massively distorted news & information system.
The BBC & our strict Ofcom rules have been a bulwark against worst excesses of online mis- & disinfo. But for how much longer? The hounding of Newsnight's Nick Watt this week was a horrifying example of where this leads. And GB News has thrown a powerful new grenade into the mix.
I recorded this on Fri with the excellent Columbia Journalism Review. Its editor @kylepope got in touch to ask what on earth going on with UK media. So bizarre to explain what’s going on to someone watching from outside. The madness of ‘Freedom Day’ as the virus mutates & surges
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.
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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