Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

Move fast, fix things…. Who does the clean up? (With an aside on the very odd location by the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk and cameo from the yimby bros) www.no2id.uk/2026/move-fa...

We’ll be doing more much-loved (and still worn!) NO2ID metal pin badges. We’ll send some to those who donate more than £40 – your donations will help us do the first manufacturing run, which takes a month. www.no2id.uk/donations/

Beyond disappointed with anyone I work with who supports the FDP and SPR after we witnessed the route to policy. It never solved a technical issue.

GDS talking about cancer data sharing of "ultra-rare cancerhood tumours" but without allowing analysis to be reported on less than 5 patients... What "ultra-rare" definition have they made up? dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/15/g...

The way you can tell it’s Palantir is they never mention who built it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

There were plans written in silos and promoting particular viewpoints - see TBI on ID cards and John Bell on replacing NHS doctors with AIs and pharma bsky.app/profile/dann...

Yes bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Making Palantir irreplaceable - NHSE England’s choices medconfidential.org/2025/making-...

DH has reannounced their lack of progress on business models for NHS IP. On that same basis, here’s what we said in January which is a minor tweak from 2019 medconfidential.org/2025/busines...

A warning for experts by experience medconfidential.org/2025/a-warni...

Palantir and choices in public health bsky.app/profile/melo...

The upcoming ID Cards consultation www.no2id.uk/2025/upcomin...

Today in the Database State www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Today in anonymisation is hard: bsky.app/profile/waff...

Reading the Blair Government’s argument for ID - section by section www.no2id.uk/2025/respond...

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...

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.”

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?