Topic: Department of Health and Social Care
The Department of Health and Social Care has been involved in various initiatives that raise significant concerns about privacy and surveillance. From plans to utilize big tech for mass location tracking to partnerships aimed at monitoring citizen behavior, these actions reflect a troubling trend of government overreach and data collection. The implications for individual liberty and free expression are profound, as state surveillance and data commercialization threaten to undermine personal privacy rights.
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UK’s New Pandemic Plan Would Turn Big Tech Into a Mass Location Tracking Network
UK’s £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
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Tony Blair Institute Hosts Controversial Panel on Health Data Commercialization
Speakers push for controversial health data commercialization and surveillance measures.
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Exposed: The UK Company Subjecting Your Social Media Posts To State Surveillance
Logically is partnered with Big Tech platforms.
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UK government asked Facebook to remove a post that was restricted to be seen by “Friends Only”
Over a post regarding Covid test kits.
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UK government partners with mobile carrier O2 on “big-data” project monitoring behavior of millions of people
Large-scale data collection and analysis.
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UK considering joining EU vaccine passport scheme, reports say
It would make it easier for the UK to rapidly deploy a domestic vaccine passport.
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UK government hires COVID passport contractor that suggested redeploying the tech as national ID
The move has been criticized.
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UK: How to opt-out of the NHS’s imminent data grab
The deadline to opt-out is September 2021. Share this guide with family and friends.
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Committee says UK’s $30bn digital “track and trace” is ineffective, inept, and a waste
The privacy invasion was far from worth it.
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Britain to start digital health passport trials
Supporters of privacy and human rights are, of course, concerned.
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UK admits COVID tracing program is operating illegally
Data protection assurances are non existent.