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  • jackal@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Wasn’t there something that went round not long ago about consenting to this or not? I take it that’s not relevant anymore and we don’t get a say in this now?

  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    First they sold off the nationalised public services and I did not speak out because I imagined I could be a rich shareholder one day.

    Then they sold off the council houses, school fields and parks and I did not speak out because I imagined myself a rich landowner one day.

    Then they sold our data and I did not speak out because I thought it was only data and believed them when they said it would make things better one day.

    Then they sold me…

  • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    This undermine trust in the health care system. Some may be more reluctant to go to the hospital.

    • Denys Nykula@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Having a centralized, easy-to-leak database of everyone in the country with stigmatized diagnoses is overall a scary thing that privacy advocates should keep fighting against, in places where it still hasn’t been implemented.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    The company’s founder, Peter Thiel, donated $1.25m to Donald Trump’s election campaign.

    Thiel, like Musk, supported Trump for one reason: to further his business interests. Thiel is just less loud mouthy about it and hasn’t (yet) fallen out with Trump. This is what Keir Starters means when he says he’s negotiated a “trade deal” with the US. He has signed your data away to Palantir. This isn’t going to be reversed. There’s nothing the UK can do about it now and Keir doesn’t want to upset Donald more than he already has.

    • DaGreenGobbo@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      It’s more than money to these pricks. Yes, that is extremely important but it’s also about reconstituting our societies so that rich white straight men are unquestionably on top and everyone else has nothing. These are Dark Enlightenment pricks.