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Independent geek working for digital liberty. Standards@OSI. ORG Director. Founded Meshed Insights & Public SW. Other stuff before & now. My opinions alone.

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    Sep 9

    At last, clear guidance.

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    Sep 9

    Things grandkids will ask about this era: 1. Is it true the sky used to be blue like in the pictures? 2. You went outside with just a cloth mask over your face? 3. Could you really vote even if you weren't a member of the Republican party?

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    Sep 9

    GDPR has created jobs-for-life for petty interfering jobsworths who impose pointless costs on small businesses across Europe but has done nothing to protect us from Amazon and Facebook and their remorseless abuse of us all.

    Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
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  4. Sep 9

    Johnson doesn't care if decent people like resign - it's part of the Trump playbook he's using. He and his cabinet want it to keep happening until the people he can bully float to the top.

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  5. Sep 8

    If they aren't breaking the law then surely this is the government's fault?

    Amazon UK pays 3% more in tax despite 35% rise in profits
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  6. Sep 8

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    Sep 7

    Johnson personally re-negotiated this withdrawal agreement. He put it before the electorate at a general election, and he won an overall majority He put it before the House of Commons, and he won a majority He boasted of it as 'oven-ready' This is *his* agreement He owns it

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    Sep 7

    ‘We’ve entered into a legally binding international agreement by mistake’

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    Sep 7

    The suggestion that a sovereign state cannot be sovereign when it is party to a treaty is inherently absurd, as the modern notion of a sovereign state is that it is a state capable of entering into a treaty

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  10. Sep 7

    That thing Parliament expressly said should not happen is apparently a "good thing" that Johnson is going to force to happen in service to the 0.01% who will benefit from Brexit.

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    We need to talk about the fact that Boris Johnson is calling "a good outcome".
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  11. Sep 6

    Is this the model the government wants for the NHS when it opens it up to US healthcare companies?

    Zachary Sussman is a pathologist who oversaw covid tests at 4 standalone ERs for Physicians Premier, but he resigned in horror after he got a $8 covid test at one of the company's locations and then they billed his insurer $10,984.16 for it. 1/
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    Sep 6

    In fairness to the Telegraph, they are taking their cue from the press release from the actual Ministry of Justice, casually referring to people accused *and not convicted* of crimes as “offenders”.

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    Sep 6

    And, right on cue, some in the Telegraph’s reporting of the story. By definition, the people affected are neither “criminals” nor “offenders”. They are people accused of a criminal offence, awaiting trial, a number of whom will be wholly innocent.

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    Sep 5

    COVID-19 is very different disease from the one we thought it was in March. We now know it is multi-systemic, and it might turn out to be able to cause damage in anyone infected, even if asymptomatic. Yet I see no shift in public health messaging and campaigns to acknowledge this

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  15. Sep 4

    No more Mr Nice Onion.

    Trump Slaughters Dozens Of American Troops In Hopes Of Cashing In On Russian Bounties
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  16. Sep 4

    I suppose sending their undesirables to labour in the UK is some sort of closure for Australia.

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    Sep 3

    Voatz, the company that reported a student to the authorities for participating in a bug bounty, is now trying to damage security research at a national level. This cannot go unnoticed.

    what fresh hell is this
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    Sep 3

    German daily Berliner Zeitung sees no future for personalized advertising based on extensive tracking. They state it violates the GDPR, and: German news publishers have stretched the law at the expense of readers instead of addressing structural issues of how to fund journalism.

    Wow. Die Berliner Zeitung sagt, personalisierte Werbung auf Basis von exzessivem Tracking habe keine Zukunft. Medien hätten das Recht "zu Lasten ihrer Leser interpretativ ausgeweitet" und damit die Lösung struktureller Finanzierungsdefizite verschleppt.
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    Sep 3

    A company trying to make money selling electronic election equipment thinks security research is bad. Actually, it's that's bad. And should never ever be trusted with anything, especially not national infrastructure key to our democracy. Sociopathic idiots.

    what fresh hell is this
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    Sep 2

    The for jobs for 16-24 year olds sounds like its going to be strangled at birth. Need to create 30 jobs minimum, apply for the jobs to be accepted, wait for it to be approved before you can look to hire IF the employee qualifies. Will only benefit large companies

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