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May 30 • 6 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
🔴 The Cabinet Office could take unprecedented action to prevent Boris Johnson’s unredacted diaries and WhatsApp messages from being handed over to the official Covid inquiry

What is there to hide?

theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
We are so convinced of the need for transparency and accountability in the handling of official business that in March 2022 we went to court to challenge the government's use of disappearing #WhatsApp & text messages.
In July 2022, we requested a copy of the WhatsApp messages sent by No 10 staff shared with Sue Gray for her report on the Partygate when Boris Johnson was PM.
Here is the Cabinet Office's reply
Recent developments seem to show we were right all along. The Cabinet Office's refusal to be transparent on public interest issues is leading to an unprecedented clash of power.

A clash that diminishes our democracy
🔴 Update: the Cabinet Office now claims they do not have Boris Johnson's messages, which are crucial to understanding how the pandemic was handled by the Cabinet at the time.

The Chair of the Covid inquiry, Baroness Hallett, is having none of it Image
This is a VERY LOW point for the Cabinet

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4pm today is the deadline for the Cabinet Office to hand over Boris Johnson’s unredacted 24 notebooks and WhatsApps to the COVID public inquiry.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…
So far, the Cabinet Office has insisted that any “irrelevant” material should be redacted, in order to protect policy-forming and privacy.

The public is left wondering: "What are they trying to hide?"
Beware: the obstacle is NOT Boris Johnson, who has committed to sharing his WhatsApps and notes.

It's messages from serving ministers and officials at stake now, including, possibly, from PM Rishi Sunak.

@rowenamason has an explainer.

theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
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May 29
🚨🚨🚨 NHS data breach: NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so. theguardian.com/society/2023/m…
An astounding investigation by @shanti_das @ObserverUK has revealed how a covert tracking tool in the websites of 20 NHS trusts has for years collected browsing information and shared it with Meta, in a major breach of NHS patients'privacy. Image
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granular details of
✔️ pages viewed
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✔️user's IP address, a piece of info that can identify an individual or household
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Mar 28
🔴NEW: Lack of transparency over police forces' covert use of predictive policing software raises concerns about human rights abuses:

@allthecitizens/@BylineTimes have discovered over £5m in government work issued to social media monitoring firm Dataminr.
The UK gov is deploying software used to shut down BLM protests in the US.

Research released today in @SageJournals, by @dreleanordrage / @fedefrabetti1 shows how the software is more likely to flag left wing, black and brown crowds as potential threats:
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Dataminr have been awarded work with the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office, and Foreign Office between 2017-2022, but details of their work with all departments is considered exempt under FOI, as is whether they’re working with police in the UK.
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Mar 21
🔴 Today we'll be closely monitoring the @CommonsDCMS committee's grilling of @DSIT officials about the government’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), launched in 2019 to counter disinformation in elections and during the pandemic.
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8a…
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Mar 16
🔴 BREAKING

The Uk has been downgraded by @CIVICUSMonitor, an annual index of civic freedoms in 197 countries, as a result of the government’s “increasingly authoritarian” drive to impose restrictive and punitive laws on public protests
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@CIVICUSMonitor Here at @allthecitizens we have been sounding the alarm for years

The United Kingdom has been downgraded from ‘narrowed’ to ‘obstructed’

❌Restrictive law gives police more powers to undermine the right to protest

❌ Another punitive proposal is making its way through parliament

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