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On 19/02/14 21:25, Anna Morris wrote:
On 19/02/14 15:56, Ash Moran wrote:
On 19 Feb 2014, at 12:27, Anna Morris gingerling@inventati.org wrote:
privacy campaigners like ourselves have had a major victory this week regarding care.data - the data uploaded (/theft!) start date has been pushed back six months http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/vict...
Oh, that’s good news. I haven’t submitted my request to be excluded yet, is it still worth doing now or should I sit on it and see if it gets canned altogether?
I would do it now, I doubt it will get canned - it's in the really advanced stages and has a lot of insurance people drooling over the data they are gonna get.
It is really interesting to try and work out the root cause of this whole thing.
In any other context, the politicians and law enforcement would be screaming murder if some hackers from anonymous extracted this data. The politicians have some very good advisors who will have told them what is really at stake. So why are they still pushing ahead with it at all? I can only think of two possible explanations:
a) they must be really desperate for money to prop up the country - if they don't fund Trident, they lose their seat on the UN Security Council, the last nail in the coffin for an empire that used to cover 25% of the world's surface. Quite a contradiction really, health data sold to pay for weapons of mass destruction.
b) some of the companies benefiting from this may have made individual donations to political parties (or even "private" donations, in other words, bribes)
Will Snowden or somebody like him expose (b) perhaps?
Despite all the news we have only 6 people signed up to come to Tuesday's talk: http://manchester.openrightsgroup.org/2014/02/16/why-you-should-opt-out-of-m...
(and two of those are me and my Joey!)
I may or may not be free that night, I suppose my question is that other than learning about care.data and ORG’s work will I be any more use after turning up?
I think we need to try and get a good show together to be honest, but other wise I guess it will just be an interesting evening and info about care.data. The speaker is one of the main opponents and really knows his shit.
Can you stream the session?