“Facebook has already shifted users’ agreements for UK users away from the EU to its US terms, does not allow UK users to opt-out of personalised advertisements, nor do they plan to switch to a consent-based model of advertising like is happening in Europe.
It's more than obvious that Facebook doesn't believe the Information Commissioner's Office will enforce UK data protection standards."
"De-anonymising data is surprisingly easy: if you know Tony Blair’s date of birth (a matter of public record) and the two dates during his term in office in which he was treated for a heart condition (ditto), you can pick him out of any “anonymised” pool of NHS data in seconds, and then discover all those facts about his health that aren’t a matter of public record... Dr Ben Goldacre and his team at Oxford created OpenSAFELY, a “Trusted Research Environment” that allows researchers to write programs that analyse NHS data in situ. These programs would be dispatched to run against the data held by NHS trusts, and then the system would return the results to the researchers without ever letting them handle the data – which never left the trusts’ own servers." https://goodlawproject.org/cory-doctorow-health-data-it-isnt-just-palantir-or-bust/ #dataProtection#research#NHS#privacy
PS #Palantir, ... is literally named after an evil, all-seeing magic talisman employed by the principal villain of Lord of the Rings (“Sauron, are we the baddies?”)
No, you can't license my cat picture to Elon, Jack and Mark.
When you post on #Bluesky, #Twitter or #Meta you agree to grant them a very broad perpetual license to the content, including the right to sublicense. On Mastodon, most instances do not take a license. Any bridge that takes content from Mastodon and, without permission, puts that content on one of these platforms is violating that user's #copyright to the content. You can not #license content which you do not own.
You are in control of the data you share. Full stop.
The #GDPR has put you in control of your personal data, including enshrining consent to its processing and the right to be forgotten.
As of January, the European Data Act will extend your rights to connected products by making it easy to access and move any data generated – whether it's about personal data or not.
On #DataProtectionDay, we ask you: What are the most important advancements for you? 👇
Don't let US spy tech Palantir get their hands on our sensitive health data. Resist the proposed NHS Federated Data Platform contract in the UK before it's too late.
Sign the Foxglove petition to Stop Palantir's NHS Data Takeover!
The UK Met Police have announced plans to use facial recognition tech to identify shoplifters – the new boogeyman to legitimise a explosion of biometric surveillance.
At the same time as the #DataGrabBill weakens the regulatory framework by scrapping the position of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner and the Surveillance Camera Code.
⚠️ Age verification is risky but Ofcom wants to introduce it on web users ⚠️
"The potential consequences of data being leaked are catastrophic and could include blackmail, fraud, relationship damage, and the outing of people's sexual preferences in very vulnerable circumstances."
This report showing car insurance quotes are more expensive in areas of greater mixed ethnicity is further evidence of how algorithms can embed discrimination and carry real-life harms.
🔴 Changes to subject access requests will make it harder to find out what data insurance companies hold on you to challenge a decision or incorrect data.
🔴 Protections from solely automated decisions are weakened.
NHS England is facing a judicial review over the contract for the Federated Data Platform that was recently awarded to #Palantir.
Foxglove, the Doctors’ Association UK, National Pensioners’ Convention and Just Treatment argue the #NHS has no legal basis for setting up the Platform.
The contract for the Platform and the rules governing how our health data is shared should get Parliamentary approval.
UK government plans to plug biometric passport data into an expanding system of facial recognition will be enabled by the #DataGrabBill.
Ministerial powers to expand the list of 'legitimate uses' includes reporting criminal acts or safeguarding concerns to appropriate authorities for alleged crimes or to the suspicion of crimes.
This creates the condition of possibility for data-fuelled mass surveillance.
It was thanks to Subject Access Requests that teaching assistants and librarians were able to find out that the UK Department for Education is keeping files on their internet activity.
When the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is passed, we might not be able to find out about such sinister practices because the Bill will make it easier for the government to refuse our requests to access the data it holds about us.
If you want to be asked for your permission before corporations get access to your private #medical records in the #EU, there is a big petition for you to sign that demands exactly that:
#GDPR was used to end the police practice of digital strip searches on victims of sexual violence (demanding data under threat of dropping a complaint).
The #DataGrabBill gives the police unprecedented power to collect and use personal data for law enforcement, whether for loosely defined substantial public interests or the legitimate interest of reporting crimes.
So #Facebook just asked me if I wanted to create a post with some photos I had downloaded onto my phone. It was album artwork I had uploaded to use with some music tracks, they weren't even in my main DCIM album, but evidently, good ol' #Meta has scoured my entire phone looking for pictures. That's not creepy at all! And people are falling over each other to join #Threads SMH :blobcatglance: #DataPrivacy#DataSecurity#GDPR#DataProtection
It’s so long, see you never 🤞 for this flawed legislation that would’ve removed controls over our data and handed power to UK government bodies and companies.
ORG and civil society organisations fought the Bill to ensure it wasn’t just nodded into law 🔥
“This measure will give the Government the right to inspect the bank account of anyone who claims a state pension."
Broad new powers slipped into the #DataGrabBill will let the UK Department of Work and Pensions surveil the finances of benefit claimants, including child benefit and pensions.
Sneaking in a welfare surveillance clause without scrutiny is another new low for this government.
The #DataGrabBill gives the UK government powers to amend the list of legitimate uses of data for other purposes than what it was collected for without having to balance it with the rights of the individual.
Plus private businesses can be compelled to share data with the State and law enforcement.
This will fatten databases to produce discriminatory outcomes in commercial practices and public services.
28 January commemorates the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s ground-breaking #Convention108, the first binding international law securing individuals' rights to protection of their #PersonalData.
"It’s not just Big Tech that’s playing for all the marbles - it’s also the systems of democratic control and accountability. If Apple can sabotage the DMA’s insistence on taking away its veto over its customers’ software choices, that will spill over into the US Department of Justice’s case over the same issue, as well as the cases in Japan and South Korea."