This is a paradox. The market cannot be free if it is protected. People need protection not companies. If companies fail and market demand exists then this creates opportunity for new business. "Protecting the free market" means profits are privatised while losses are socialised.

I asked the British and German governments, and health authorities, for data and details about their respective contact tracing plans and efforts. German authorities provided data and detailed answers. UK authorities didn't. buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…

I've analysed the data protection impact assessment for the NHSX Isle of Wight App trial. It indicates very significant legal flaws. The paper I have written on it can be found here: osf.io/preprints/lawa…. I'll go through the main ones in this thread 1/n

I am actually perplexed by this lunacy. No one has been ordered to do anything... NOTHING HAS CHANGED! Work from home, if you can't work from home then go to work if it is safe to do so... Was it safe to go to work on Friday? Is it safe to go to work Tomorrow?...

Tell me again, that privacy concerns in contact tracing are overrated. 👇 South Korea. It also shows why we should think beyond privacy to broader human rights such as protection against discrimination

If the Tories crank up this rhetoric in the coming days, Labour has to be clear. “Unions protect workers and everyone who works should be in one.” That simple.

NHSX app saga: from shiny wunderkind to being kicked firmly into the long grass. Feels like gaslighting to say England never took a technosolutionist approach and only ever wanted manual contact tracers... independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

If the NHS will to support it, I could roll out the German Corona-Warn-App (privacy respecting, official diagnosis rather than self-reporting as I understand it) in short time at zero cost to the taxpayers. If the government can't pull themselves together, we can. Please RT.

It's also possible that the opposite is true, that we're witnessing the rise of right racism? Now the cat is well and truely out of the bag the racists are feeling emboldened and coming out of the woodwork...

On track to have spent as much on Brexit by the end of the year as we spent on membership, since joining. Take a moment to consider that. ~AA

How he got elected.

Don’t ever tell me I’m “not English”.

@thesundaytimes Can we??? The man is a walking national security threat. Easily blackmailed/ bought for money is just one critical weakness to his cracked shell of a person. Christ alive... Doesn't have a strand of integrity or moral decency... He's been living off bribes for sodding years ffs

This seems completely insane. Feels like a great way to alienate people. Twitter 2.0: Posting hate speech is fine but linking to other networks is not 🤷‍♂️