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Palantir and choices in public health bsky.app/profile/melo...
As I read this, I'm thinking about the man I interviewed who had to be hospitalized from the Covid he caught at the poultry processing plant and he got fired for it and he still has long Covid
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Palantir and choices in public health bsky.app/profile/melo...
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The upcoming ID Cards consultation www.no2id.uk/2025/upcomin...
The upcoming ID Cards Consultation
In the announcement of ‘digital ID cards’ that they claimed would prevent illegal migration, the Government also announced a consultation to cover a range of other topics, including the age range a…
www.no2id.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The upcoming ID Cards consultation www.no2id.uk/2025/upcomin...
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Today in the Database State www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Today in the Database State www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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NEW: UK asked Apple to backdoor iCloud encryption.
Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups.
Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/
www.ft.com/content/d101...
Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups.
Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/
www.ft.com/content/d101...
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
NEW: UK asked Apple to backdoor iCloud encryption.
Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups.
Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/
www.ft.com/content/d101...
Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups.
Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/
www.ft.com/content/d101...
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This is very good from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Of note “Greater efficiency in public services [from Digital ID] did not come out in the research as a high priority for the general public, who instead want to see other improvements in their daily lives.”
Of note “Greater efficiency in public services [from Digital ID] did not come out in the research as a high priority for the general public, who instead want to see other improvements in their daily lives.”
I don't have an issue with identity cards as a category. Some of my concerns about this particular announcement here www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
Unpacking Digital ID - can the government deliver on its ambitions? — Careful Industries
A look at what has been proposed, how it might work, and whether it will be effective.
www.careful.industries
September 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is very good from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Of note “Greater efficiency in public services [from Digital ID] did not come out in the research as a high priority for the general public, who instead want to see other improvements in their daily lives.”
Of note “Greater efficiency in public services [from Digital ID] did not come out in the research as a high priority for the general public, who instead want to see other improvements in their daily lives.”
Will people arrested at a protest for human rights action on Palestine have to unlock their phones to show their ID to the police?
bsky.app/profile/arts...
bsky.app/profile/arts...
This is an important one, folks. The question isn't how ID cards would improve efficiency under a humane and sensible government, it's how they would be misused by, say, Nigel Farage to target brown people or queer people or disabled people or just white migrants like me who are a little weird.
One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
September 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Will people arrested at a protest for human rights action on Palestine have to unlock their phones to show their ID to the police?
bsky.app/profile/arts...
bsky.app/profile/arts...
It’s Labour’s conference week, so the Government is announcing digital ID cards and re-announcing its politically-controlled centralised database of all of your medical notes.
medconfidential.org/2025/single-...
medconfidential.org/2025/single-...
Single Patient Record (and ID cards…) | medConfidential
medconfidential.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s Labour’s conference week, so the Government is announcing digital ID cards and re-announcing its politically-controlled centralised database of all of your medical notes.
medconfidential.org/2025/single-...
medconfidential.org/2025/single-...
Blair’s institute wants your ID card to link to the NHS. When the report says “the PM should lead”, the report authors seem to mean TBI institute.global/insights/pub...
The NHS at a Crossroads: The App That Can Transform Britain’s Health
The NHS at a Crossroads: The App That Can Transform Britain’s Health
institute.global
August 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Blair’s institute wants your ID card to link to the NHS. When the report says “the PM should lead”, the report authors seem to mean TBI institute.global/insights/pub...
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A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped:
The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knp8bQJ47xg
Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr...
The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knp8bQJ47xg
Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr...
The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential
Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped:
The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knp8bQJ47xg
Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr...
The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knp8bQJ47xg
Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr...
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This might get noisy - US threatening to ban Peter Kyle and ofcom from US travel over OSA heavy handedness against Americans x.com/prestonjbyrn...?
Preston Byrne on X: "Ofcom has been sending several American clients pretty stupid letters over the last six months. Pinged the White House about it this morning. Got a callback 20 minutes later asking for recommendations for visa bans. What a time to be alive." / X
Ofcom has been sending several American clients pretty stupid letters over the last six months. Pinged the White House about it this morning. Got a callback 20 minutes later asking for recommendations for visa bans. What a time to be alive.
x.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This might get noisy - US threatening to ban Peter Kyle and ofcom from US travel over OSA heavy handedness against Americans x.com/prestonjbyrn...?
This pod by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is about the US, but similar data linkage is happening in the UK for different political purposes - but political purposes are entirely dependent upon the interests of the politicians overcast.fm/+ABHI4Ur24Mg
ICE Is Building a Nationwide Tracking System (and Your Data is In It) — Taylor Lorenz’s Power User
Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co The U.S. government is quietly building the largest surveillance system in mo...
overcast.fm
July 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This pod by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is about the US, but similar data linkage is happening in the UK for different political purposes - but political purposes are entirely dependent upon the interests of the politicians overcast.fm/+ABHI4Ur24Mg
tools Gov is encouraging / mandating your doctors to use... bsky.app/profile/jxf....
Asking the OpenAI Whisper audio model to transcribe 30 seconds of silence generates the output "ترجمة نانسي قنقر", which is "translation by Nancy Qanqar".
Nancy Qanqar is a volunteer translator of (among other things) many pirated movies, so that invites an interesting conclusion on data sources.
Nancy Qanqar is a volunteer translator of (among other things) many pirated movies, so that invites an interesting conclusion on data sources.
July 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
tools Gov is encouraging / mandating your doctors to use... bsky.app/profile/jxf....
NHS England will let Palantir and others develop algorithms to do this test this on NHS patient data, and Palantir's interoperability will allow "drag and drop" to the data mining tools that their US customers use against US women: appleinsider.com/articles/25/...
Apple Watch sensors are so good, it could provide the first pregnancy indicators
Apple's latest research shows that using a combination of Apple Watch sensors and all Apple Health data, results in a remarkably accurate pregnancy detector.
appleinsider.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
NHS England will let Palantir and others develop algorithms to do this test this on NHS patient data, and Palantir's interoperability will allow "drag and drop" to the data mining tools that their US customers use against US women: appleinsider.com/articles/25/...
Data always leaks - centralising your GP notes under the control of Secretary of State will mean someone can do something like this (and they can’t relocate your medical history)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Secret Afghan relocation scheme set up after major data breach
The existence of the scheme could not be reported until now because of a court injunction.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Data always leaks - centralising your GP notes under the control of Secretary of State will mean someone can do something like this (and they can’t relocate your medical history)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Starting to see how often access to patient notes is abused www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...
'My sister died without justice': Hospital staff violate patients' privacy
A Freedom of Information request found that 59 members of staff at an NHS trust had wrongfully accessed patient records between 2020 and 2024
www.cambridge-news.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Starting to see how often access to patient notes is abused www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...
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In the latest episode of Everything Digital Health I chat to Sam Smith of @medconfidential.bsky.social about the NHS Federated Data Platform
what is it for?
what does it do?
why is it so unclear what its purposes are?
why are we using #Palantir to build it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4B...
what is it for?
what does it do?
why is it so unclear what its purposes are?
why are we using #Palantir to build it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4B...
The NHS Federated Data Platform Part 1: What Is It? with Sam Smith of MedConfidential
YouTube video by Everything Digital Health
www.youtube.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In the latest episode of Everything Digital Health I chat to Sam Smith of @medconfidential.bsky.social about the NHS Federated Data Platform
what is it for?
what does it do?
why is it so unclear what its purposes are?
why are we using #Palantir to build it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4B...
what is it for?
what does it do?
why is it so unclear what its purposes are?
why are we using #Palantir to build it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4B...
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But the following section included this great question from the Chair:
"Do you commit to this Committee that the Single Patient Record will be built on open standards, open source, and will not be proprietary"
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
"Do you commit to this Committee that the Single Patient Record will be built on open standards, open source, and will not be proprietary"
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
parliamentlive.tv
July 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
But the following section included this great question from the Chair:
"Do you commit to this Committee that the Single Patient Record will be built on open standards, open source, and will not be proprietary"
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
"Do you commit to this Committee that the Single Patient Record will be built on open standards, open source, and will not be proprietary"
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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The Parliamentary Science, Innovation and Technology Committee was super interesting this week - not only did it have a section on NHS England's #Palantir Federated Data Platform with Louis Mosley:
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
parliamentlive.tv
July 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Parliamentary Science, Innovation and Technology Committee was super interesting this week - not only did it have a section on NHS England's #Palantir Federated Data Platform with Louis Mosley:
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Five rights and no more bsky.app/profile/mike...
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
www.theverge.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Five rights and no more bsky.app/profile/mike...
This scathing assessment of the former leadership of ONS could equally apply to the unreformed leadership of HDR www.ft.com/content/a342...
Former ONS head was allowed to act ‘without check or balance’, says senior MP
Committee probes UK Statistics Authority’s role in overseeing Sir Ian Diamond, who resigned as national statistician in May
www.ft.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This scathing assessment of the former leadership of ONS could equally apply to the unreformed leadership of HDR www.ft.com/content/a342...
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Each time the Labour government takes its tech policy from the Tony Blair Institute (every time Labour talks about tech "innovation")
we need to remind them their "tech experts" are employed by the "Let's blockchain the genocide" organisation.
This is how shiny, banal evil looks, sounds, and is.
we need to remind them their "tech experts" are employed by the "Let's blockchain the genocide" organisation.
This is how shiny, banal evil looks, sounds, and is.
So many unfathomable stages to this, so many points which it would be possible to walk away, but to actually get as far as writing document with your pet list of bullshit bingo projects is completely shameless
July 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Each time the Labour government takes its tech policy from the Tony Blair Institute (every time Labour talks about tech "innovation")
we need to remind them their "tech experts" are employed by the "Let's blockchain the genocide" organisation.
This is how shiny, banal evil looks, sounds, and is.
we need to remind them their "tech experts" are employed by the "Let's blockchain the genocide" organisation.
This is how shiny, banal evil looks, sounds, and is.
Looks like the 10yp confirms that the single patient record will be in FDP/Palantir (bottom right, page 84)
July 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Looks like the 10yp confirms that the single patient record will be in FDP/Palantir (bottom right, page 84)
It’s not helpful to laugh at the faceplant, but this is very funny www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...
Exclusive: 10-Year Plan published without delivery chapter
The government's 10-Year Health Plan has been published without a planned chapter on how the changes it proposes will be delivered.
www.hsj.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
It’s not helpful to laugh at the faceplant, but this is very funny www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...