Re: Conspiracy time?
Yet Another Anonymous coward = Monsewer Cummings ?
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I think you'll find that behind their incompetence there lurks a dark soul, full of malice, that couldn't give a sh** about peoples data security (or people). After all, just look at their record ! They *could* have had a contract-tracing app, a secure one, operating fully by now, instead they chose to use their deliberately insecure one, with that talktalk a***hole running it. Says it all.
They seem to have moved-on from their headline NHS APP:
"Our commitment to protecting your personal information
Whenever you provide personal information to a third party, that party is legally obliged to use your information in line with data protection law.
We take the security of your personal information seriously. We've set up security measures, policies and procedures such as:
training all staff annually in data and security protection
monitoring our platform to keep your personal information secure
following good practice guidance provided by the National Technical Authority
always using legally binding agreements with all organisations we use
having security and confidentiality policies in place across the organisation, to which staff must agree before they’re given access to personal information
restricting access to personal information to only those staff who need access to perform their role"
https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/the-nhs-app/privacy/
You mean like the village I live in..... Orange (as was) applied for permission to erect a 3G base on the outskirts of the village. The villagers, via the parish council, objected, citing the "known" cancer risk. Permission denied. Consequently, coverage continued to be rubbish, and people complained about that. After a few years, coverage improved a lot. Nobody coupled that to the erection of a "telephone pole" (with no wires on it, but a steel cabinet next to it (with Orange clearly printed on the attached operator plate)). Even though knocking on the "pole" clearly informs you it is hollow. I kept quiet. Now they're complaining about some of them being "done" for speeding. The council installed average speed cameras because the village people complained about speeding drivers. Sometimes, stupidity is incurable and epidemic.
Strange world: Arresting and possibly jailing people for not locking themselves away.
So if an uninfected person is out on their own, not with other people or even near them, they can be arrested and jailed for that "crime".
Given that police are ones at high-risk of being infected, and that jails are highly likely to be large establishments filled with infected and sick people very soon....
Seriously?
I have a broadband-over-copper installation.
The exchange is 100 metres away (although the broadband sites say it is 800 metres away).
The download speed is 19mbps, upload 800kbps with a ping of 8ms.
It costs me £19/month.
Fibre to give me the minimum 38mbps will cost me a minimum of £27/month.
I have no need to change.
Not going to either.
Unless you had not noticed....the £ has not been backed by gold for many decades....it is a fiat currency.....and Ted Heath sold more gold, for a lower price, than Gordon Brown did. Money does grow on trees. And banks make more money than the govt does. "the majority of money in the modern economy is created by commercial banks making loans" https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy
They do understand...pseudo-anonymised health data was handed-out a few years ago, and it was found to be simple to trace the actual patient from that, by referring to other data existing. They know. They don't care. Large amount of revolving doors in healthcare and politics.
You can opt-out of data being used for research purposes, you cannot opt-out of your data being used by health professionals. You cannot opt-out of your anonymised data being used by .. everyone
https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/national-data-opt-out/operational-policy-guidance-document/what-are-national-data-opt-outs
I still suffer from lorenzo disease. It is spread by your medical provider having to use a system that is useful only for arranging childrens birthday parties. Once upon a time, the hospital I use was the height of efficient organisation, then came lorenzo. Heard nothing from them since.
All-digital records only exist for those treated after around the year 2000....everyone born before then has a large paper folder following them from hospital-to-hospital (I am not joking). And that is just the hospital records, which are separate from primary care records (hospitals still send "letters" about your care back to your primary care provider)(how cute). As yet, there are few links between secondary and primary care records. And even less link between your paper records and your digital records!
Once your records get into the USA, your data protection rights that you have here, will cease over there!!
They're not zero-tariff though....not without a trade agreement....https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45112872
We may well offer zero-tariff on imports, or most of them, but tariffs on our exports are not zero...and if we offer the EU zero tariffs on imports, we also have to do that for every other WTO country.
This country has as much money as it needs, to do most things. You are stuck in a household budget way of thinking about govt spending. I suggest further reading: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/nation-states-arent-households-debating-their-economies-if-they-are-stupid is just one, google will throw out plenty more. The govt makes all the money? https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/how-is-money-created is another. A very large proportion of money the govt spends, comes back to it....most of it if you only buy fuel (64% tax) or alcohol (£12 billion in tax on alcohol last year) !
Governments are not households. And they are not businesses.
Tesla Discloses US Revenues Collapsed 39%
Automotive revenues plunged 12% to $5.4 billion.
Energy and storage revenues ticked up less than 1% to $402 million.
“Services and other” revenues jumped by 68% to $548 million.
https://wolfstreet.com/2019/10/29/tesla-discloses-us-revenues-collapsed-39-americans-sour-on-its-cars-pent-up-demand-exhausted/
There is a promotion poster for the nhs app on the wall in my GPs' waiting room....and they can't use the money for more nurses, because it is not allocated for that...and they can't afford more nurses anyway.... (and after creating a hostile environment for migrants, getting any to work here is getting harder)
If you don't like it, you can always buy healthcare insurance. (you'll still end-up in an NHS hospital though.....very few private hospitals have intensive care units....they use the NHS!)
NHS App.
Iphone.
Bring app up, uses fingerprint ID to access.
Home page: "Welcome My John M*****". DOB/NHS number.
List of "things":
Check Symptoms>
Book and Manage Appts>
Order Repeat Prescription>
View Medical Record>
Manage Organ Donation Decision>
Pretty basic, but still works....I make appts via it, and repeat prescriptions.
Any simpler and it would be useless, any more complex and many people wouldn't use it.
No, I don't work with, or for, the NHS.