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...

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-...

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...

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...

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

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/...

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...

Starting to see how often access to patient notes is abused www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...

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...

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/...

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/...

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...

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.

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...

10 year plan: say goodbye to your data (and say goodbye to your GP) medconfidential.org/2025/goodbye...

We’ll have a blog post when the embargo drops

George Freeman says: "I have always understood the need to be transparent in the work I have done for and with commercial clients and charities and am always willing to answer any criticism." Really?

@england.nhs.uk decided that its own Privacy Enhancing Technology was "not initially processing Personal Identifiable Data" so didn't need a DPIA. Weak, weaselling out of their duty. It's like saying a car doesn't need safety features if it's currently empty. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/publ...

The UK Biobank sign in the background is very on brand… bsky.app/profile/rory...

The Department of Health in England can be responsible and coherent, but not this time x.com/samcoatessky...

Government’s plan to genome sequence every baby at birth from 2035 medconfidential.org/2025/governm...

Every baby’s DNA to be stored in databases run by Palantir… www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Why scrapping / making it difficult to access procedures on the NHS and instead having them done by poorly trained private sector workers is a bad idea, part #2624184

Up to £200k to join "new elite team of engineers, developers and data scientists" in 10 Downing Street to "help us fundamentally rewire the state" as part of 10 Data Science which has remarkably little transparency & democratic scrutiny given its claims... sotaletters.substack.com/p/a-message-...

Time for some scrutiny of his decisions in his last job… bsky.app/profile/shau...

DH/E saying a use of data that doesn’t appear in a data use register or publicly is entirely fine… www.politico.eu/article/doct...

Someone really needs to get on to investigating how much effort has gone into influencing police and CPS thinking about the importance of investigating every pregnancy loss in "catch a terrorist" level surveillance depth. And who put that effort together?

HDR copied the Michelle Mone approach to national emergencies… longer blog post coming

It’s not that the entire ai industry is built on thievery, it’s just there’s a first mover PR advantage from such thievery bsky.app/profile/thev...

do any members of the @ukbiobank.bsky.social PPIE group happen to follow us? DMs are open…

Ahead of the 10 year plan medconfidential.org/2025/ahead-o...

there are people (and members of the House of Lords) who think it's big tech's job to raise their kids: bsky.app/profile/saml...

People treat health apps with the same trust as their diaries or their GP and that trust is willingly abused by authorities. This is chilling.

With a politically-controlled central medical record they could ask the Government who would be obliged to hand the data over bsky.app/profile/pete...

"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss" "...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Again, this isn't an issue of left vs right, Republican vs Democrat, but authoritarianism vs democracy. You have to decide what side you're on, and fight.

The Government's has issued a Request for Ideas on the Politically Controlled health record you'll be forced to have It’s long, contradictory, and we get into the detail in the link in the next tweet

The Government's Request for Ideas on the Politically Controlled health record you'll be forced to have medconfidential.org/2025/the-spr...

Mandating anything for one group requires every other group to have it as well to prove they’re not in the targeted group bsky.app/profile/caro...

Tory peer Lord Camrose is proposing new anti-trans language on collection of sex data, in two clauses of the UK's Data (Use and Access) Bill: ● DVS trust framework bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/s... ● Data dictionary bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/s... #DUABill #DataBill #digitalID #transrights

A building block… medconfidential.org/2025/the-sel...

DSIT is running a consultation on data brokers and data intermediaries, as if they were different things.

What’s oddly missing from NHSE’s press release today about Palantir’s Cancer360 product being mandated on Trusts is who made it and whether there can be competitors on NHSE’s FDP platform (both from Palantir). Here’s a good talk about the tech itself youtu.be/XcIsSHFplPo?...

This will take a lot of work because it’s little more than a word document of typed up postit notes from a workshop wish list. Magical pony dinosaur astronauts - let’s procure that! www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

Doctors personally liable if mandatory NHS AI transcriber gets it wrong pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/30/d... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RWd... - video