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Pat Walshe. Interested in how the processing of data about people, impacts their fundamental rights & freedoms
UK
Joined July 2009
1/ I note the issues around the conservative party conference app .. BUT OMG! I took a peek at the Conservative Campaigner app - "the official mobile app for supporters of The Conservative Party” and OH BOY …- If you are thinking of using the #FaceApp consider Section 5 of the ToS & that you grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable licence to use your content (and which may be of your friends or colleagues)
- The poverty of privacy. Supermarket loyalty cards. For many families, these savings are crucial.
- Replying to @10DowningStreetWe know the PM likes fridges but please don’t forget the 9 red squirrels and the two Swaledale sheep please
- Exclusive: Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said. reuters.com/article/us-goo…
- Dear @ICOnews The UK Prime Minister @BorisJohnson is to hold a PPMQ at 5pm today via Facebook. People are asked to provide a name, occupation & post code but no privacy notice is provide about how that data will be used or about their rights etc. What say you @ICOnews ?🎙️ Get ready for another #PeoplesPMQs at 5pm today. 💬 Put your questions to the PM by commenting on our Facebook page. ➡️facebook.com/10downingstree… ℹ️ Don’t forget to include your name, occupation and town.
00:00 - 🙇♂️ here’s the @NHSEngland Test and Trace privacy notice. “This privacy notice explains what personal identifiable information is collected by this service” PII 🤦♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️ contact-tracing.phe.gov.uk/help/privacy-n…
- Product lead for Singapore's TraceTogether app. "If you ask me whether any Bluetooth contact tracing system deployed or under development, anywhere in the world, is ready to replace manual contact tracing, I will say without qualification that the answer is, No"
- Replying to @PrivacyMattersand the same ‘developer’ is behind the NRA’s official app. Oh boy. Yep, the UK @Conservatives official campaign app is developed by a US based political campaigning app platform UCampaign ucampaignapp.com OK need to go make Son’s supper - back soon. and Oh boy
- “I was one of the doctors who met Boris Johnson today. This was a highly staged press event in a newly refurbished hospital ward at Whipps Cross hospital where the prime minister met a few select members of staff & patients. This event completely brushed over the harsh realities”"I was one of the doctors who met Boris Johnson today" theguardian.com/society/2019/s…
- Meta has announced that European users can now opt out of algorithmic feeds on Instagram and Facebook, in order to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act 9to5mac.com/2023/08/22/opt… the company is not extending the same choice to users in the US or anywhere else outside Europe
- Replying to @PrivacyMatters2/ the app was developed by Social Political Media, the same entity behind the anti-abortion apps LoveBoth & MY8 used in the Irish referendum on abortion, .. but Social Political Media also developed the …. Vote Leave app, the Trump-Pence 2016 app, the French Renaissance app
