1/ EXCELLENT piece by @ChrisdYork with real investigation, confirming what I’ve been telling about since April 2020. NHS COVID data is NOT produced and presented by NHS. For profit handlers of test data and Trace and Trace system include AMAZON!! —

2/ a company that has a direct conflict in reporting high numbers; Serco; Boots, which is also conflicted, as I had guessed; Deloitte; G4S, which also manages private prisons; Palantir, with close ties to intel agencies; Transunion which runs credit checks to verify identity. All
3/ these companies have huge vested interests in continual testing, constant vaccination, home deliveries due to people being told it’s dangerous to go outside to shop (when transmission happens most often at home and NOT in ventilated distanced retail), and with links to PayPal
4/ Palantir also has a conflict of interest in benefiting from the data reporting numbers that lead people to stay home, order online since PayPal us a payment processor for online commerce and loses $$$ when people shop as humans for ‘nonessential items’ in High Streets. Get it?
5/ All these companies have access to your data when there is mass testing. Not only whether or not you test positive but your name, address, which is cross checked with Transunion, which adds your entire credit history, all your credit cards and property you ever owned, which..
6/ is cross referenced to Boots’ records (which you can no longer access personally as I learned in UK as they’ve been bought in a deal like this) that adds your entire medical history. Swab adds your DNA, which has additional information about you. Now this set of huge companies
7/ all private sector, have a consortium w/ unbelievably valuable 360 degree personally identifying data that thousands of other companies with to buy or license to sell things to you, even as the defense and intelligence agencies want your geolocation (track and trace) and your
8/ social networks, to monitor citizens to manage and disrupt dissent. So these companies and this consortium becomes among the most powerful set of companies on earth, your data makes $$$ for them forever and when this is all ‘over’ (which why should it ever be, as Matt Hancock
9/ is hinting, it’s so profitable) Britain emerges as an impoverished police state with no middle class, no independent retail, no small landlords, no privacy, no dissent, just as allays Schwab promised. I also don’t love that one of these companies builds detention facilities
10/ in conflict areas around the world, G4S. They have facilities in Palestine for instance they have been in the news for brutality. Britain please please wake up. We all need to wake up as same kind of consortium manages testing, data in US. COVID is real and terrible but the
11/ the public policy response to it is a hack: a hack of all our valuable data, social networks and privacy for companies that profit from ‘lockdown’ lasting forever. This is why the developer of the PHE COVID data platform could not explain how he ‘deduplicates’ to avoid over..
12/ counting and why he would not reveal the raw datasets. This is why you need a FOI to even see the raw datasets and colleagues who have asked for them are being given the runaround months later. This is why reporting as eyewitnesses in NHS facilities is so tightly controlled.
13/ I’d even say this is why serious scientists, virologists and immunologists who are warning about the bad science underlying the UK government’s (and other gov’t’s) policies are being vilified, targeted, harassed and silenced. Real science and empathy for lives destroyed by
14/ a ‘lockdown’ based on flimsy or misinterpreted studies, but which makes billions forever for these conflicted companies and transfers assets permanently away from the uncontrollable middle class, cannot be allowed to gain public support.
15/ @ChrisDYork ‘s superb piece. Mr York, may I interview you about it? https://t.co/q0k7f40wZy

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Two things can be true at once:
1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues
2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action to bully colleagues into silence is not a good faith champion of the free speech cause


I have kept quiet about Matthew's recent outpourings on here but as my estwhile co-author has now seen fit to portray me as an enabler of oppression I think I have a right to reply. So I will.

I consider Matthew to be a colleague and a friend, and we had a longstanding agreement not to engage in disputes on twitter. I disagree with much in the article @UOzkirimli wrote on his research in @openDemocracy but I strongly support his right to express such critical views

I therefore find it outrageous that Matthew saw fit to bully @openDemocracy with legal threats, seeking it seems to stifle criticism of his own work. Such behaviour is simply wrong, and completely inconsistent with an academic commitment to free speech.

I am not embroiling myself in the various other cases Matt lists because, unlike him, I think attention to the detail matters and I don't have time to research each of these cases in detail.
Hi @officestudents @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @RJHilsenrath @trussliz @GEOgovuk

The Equality and Diversity section of your job application has 'gender' in what appears to be a list of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

However...

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However, 'gender' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and is not defined in the Act.

https://t.co/qisFhCiV1u

Sex is the protected characteristic under the Act, but that is not on your list.

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You then ask for the 'gender' of the applicant with options:

Male
Female.

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Again, 'gender' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and is not defined in the Act.

https://t.co/qisFhCiV1u

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Sex is the protected characteristic and the only two possible options for sex are 'Female' and 'Male' as defined in the Act and consistent with biology, but you don't ask for that.

https://t.co/CEJ0gkr6nF

'Gender' is not a synonym for sex.

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