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๐Ÿšจ JUST IN | The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) signed contracts with @TelefonicaUK @BTGroup valued at ยฃ205,000 & ยฃ290,000, effective in March, to continue to track customer's movements which was extensively done during the national response to #COVID19 UK Health Security Agency
The 'potential' use of this data is includes "ongoing modelling of the spread of diseases, & helping to guide the response to future public-health emergencies โ€“ including infectious illnesses, as well as extreme weather or biological incidents."
UKHSA wants to know more about โ€œbehavioural changes post-pandemic, helping to understand the potential impact of wider health threats & to establish a post-pandemic baseline of behaviourโ€.
We previously published an article on Whitehall's 'SitCen' unit & Telefonica's deal with the Govt re: โ€œinsights on movement, demography, mobility patterns & behaviours of millions of peopleโ€ across the UK.

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May 12
Interesting that the UKHSA procurement with @TelefonicaUK @BTGroup for 'telecoms mobility data' & 'datasets' are both filed under 'telemetry surveillance system'.

contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/4a8a4b3โ€ฆ

contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/fce46d7โ€ฆ ImageImageImageImage
We also found another contract for Telefonica (o2) valued at ยฃ900,000 for "Provision of Mobility Data for the UK detailing the aggregated number of people within a specific location within the UK."

contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/e8d2969โ€ฆ ImageImage
In the BT contract (ending 2025) there's a provision for 'historical data' & ''full origin destination' between March 2019 - March 2022.

This isn't just about analysing behavioural datasets leading up to, during & after C19, this is full on surveillance & we need more answers. Image
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May 10
๐Ÿ“Š๐—จ๐—ฃ๐——๐—”๐—ง๐—˜: We've analysed 226 countries/territories with information provided by @FCDOtravelGovUK

๐ŸŒ To simplify our results, we'll provide you an alphabetical list of those countries that continue to implement #COVID19 border measures:

(contd.)
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ด Angola
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ด Bolivia
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ด British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซ Burkina Faso
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ Chad
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Comoros
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Cote d'Ivoire
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Cameroon
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Democratic Rep. of Congo (DRC)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฏ Djibouti
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ผ Guinea-Bisseau
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡น Haiti
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia

(contd.)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ท Liberia
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ผ Malawi
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Mozambique
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Mali
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ญ Marshall Islands
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Micronesia
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Myanmar (Burma)
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ท Nauru
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Nicaragua
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ช Niger
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ผ Palau
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ณ Pitcairn Islands
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ด Somalia
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡พ Syria
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ง Solomon Islands
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ธ South Sudan

(contd.)
Read 7 tweets
Mar 7
๐ŸšจEXCL: The Health Secretary @SteveBarclay handed over authority to @NHSBSA for continuing the COVID Pass until 31st March 2024, unless otherwise revoked.

It also appears that the Director of the DPU has invalidated the order, signing off the wrong year.

tinyurl.com/3x6vzjkx
In mid 2022, @maggie_erewash answered Rosindell's WPQ stating the COVID Pass was due to close by 31st March 2023. The goalposts have shifted again.

MP @AndrewRosindell finally received a 'non answer' from @mariacaulfield on 6th March whether the COVID Pass system has closed.
We issued a FOIA to DHSC back in January, receiving our reply in February. Govt expenditure on the COVID Pass system is likely to have far exceeded ยฃ25m.

Read 6 tweets
Mar 6
After hearing the @NickFerrariLBC interview with a man claiming his โ€˜healthy stepfatherโ€™ died from #Omicron, even though it wasnโ€™t registered by #NHS Northamptonshire - weโ€™re very skeptical about callers like โ€˜Rajโ€™.

And hereโ€™s the #NHS denying it happened.

northantslive.news/news/northamptโ€ฆ
Read 4 tweets
Feb 20
๐Ÿšจ EXCL: We queried DHSC on the total cost to the taxpayer for the development & implementation of the #NHS COVID Pass system before/after launch on 17th May 2021 until present.

After reviewing awarded contracts, the final amount is likely to *far exceed* what we were told.
Two of the biggest contracts were awarded to both @netcompany_uk & Teleperformance Ltd for both ยฃ18m & ยฃ25m.

contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/d0fa255โ€ฆ

contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/054df56โ€ฆ
Since February 2022, our organisation continued campaigning for the domestic COVID Pass system to be scrapped after legislation was relaxed, as well as for intl use in late 2022, in consideration of how many countries were unrestricted at their borders.
Read 8 tweets
Jan 4
๐Ÿงต The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations have returned since they were last revoked on 18th March 2022.

Coming into force at 0400 on 5th Jan & set to expire on 4th April 2023.

Brief summary in this thread โคต๏ธ

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/2/maโ€ฆ Image
1โƒฃ Even though Parliament remain on recess until Jan 9th, the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 has been used to exercise this Statutory Instrument.

No impact assessment has been provided & there's no indication of a review every 28 days by @Mark_J_Harper
2โƒฃ The regulations extend to those departing from mainland #China excluding #HongKong #Macao.

Travellers are required to "possess notification of a negative result from a test for #SARSCoV2" under Reg 3(1)(a)(b) incl. those over 12 years old.
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