Compulsory Relationships and Sex Education classes
Monty Python:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejaWq2TXRXE
'Nuff said...
UK Tory party pledges 'digital' charter, wants Verify to back online gov
The Conservatives have pledged to introduce a digital charter in the party's manifesto today, which also rehashes a number of familiar-sounding ideas about “digital by default” government and backs the failing identity authentication platform Verify. Under the section entitled “Prosperity and security in a digital age”, the …
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Thursday 18th May 2017 17:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Is there anything in the manifesto about broadband speeds?
It's not much to ask for a strong and stable connection.
I do note the following though,
Increase the amount levied on firms employing migrant workers.
So if my maths is right, I need to employ a decent coder and it's going to cost me £60k in the UK but £30 from say India and the current levy is 1k rising to 2k. So rather than saving 29k I'm only going to save 28k.
Realistically it's just a policy to look good to voters who have an issue with immigration and companies are going to laugh at it as a bit of comedy.
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Thursday 18th May 2017 19:40 GMT Christoph
By 2020 people will be able to identify themselves on all government online services via the Verify ID portal. It hopes to make the platform more widely available, so that people can safely verify their identify to access non-government services such as banking.”
Oh joy. A single point of failure, so that when it (inevitably) gets compromised it's the key to everything.
The Tories promise to reduce duplication personal data held by government in order to follow the “Once-Only” principle for central services by 2022 and wider public services by 2025.
So they can easily tie together everything that each department knows about you (and promptly have it hacked - see above).
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Thursday 18th May 2017 19:47 GMT Alt C
Down with the Kids?
I like this from page 82
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help create the most comprehensive digital map of Britain to date. In doing so, it will support a vibrant and innovative digital economy, ranging from innovative tools to help people and developers build to virtual mapping of Britain for use in video games and virtual reality.
looks like that postgrad minecraft project is getting dusted off again - because 'look we're hip'.
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraft-map-britain.html
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Thursday 18th May 2017 21:07 GMT Camilla Smythe
Well Done Mrs May...
I assume this means you will remove all third party tracking devices from websites hosted on gov.uk and nhs.uk
Oh silly me. It's not so much that you do not know your arse from your elbow but in the battle for control of your mouth the bit that should have known the difference turned into a desiccated walnut and the elbow won.
Just in case... most peoples arses are more intelligent than their elbows but you still manage to spout shit with your elbow in control.
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Friday 19th May 2017 07:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: New DPA
>So just after announcing we are going to continue with GDPR after brexit we will then have another data protection law after that? Love it when a plan comes together..
Am I missing something, or isn't the right to be forgotten part of GDPR anyway? Or they just promising us something that we will get next year without them doing anything so that they can claim to have kept one manifesto promise.
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Friday 19th May 2017 11:35 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Re: New DPA
Am I missing something, or isn't the right to be forgotten part of GDPR anyway?
Sort of.
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/overview-of-the-gdpr/individuals-rights/the-right-to-erasure/
"The right to erasure does not provide an absolute ‘right to be forgotten’. Individuals have a right to have personal data erased and to prevent processing in specific circumstances:"
Said circomstances are:
Where data is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was originally collected
Where you withdraw consent
Where you object to the processing and there is no over-riding legitimate need for the data
Your data was improperly collected or processed
There is a legal requirement
Where the data is about IT services offered to a child
There are limitations to the right for your data to be erased:
Freedom of expression
You have a legal requirement to keep it
Public health
Archiving for public interest or scientific use
Defending legal claims.
So - not an all-encompassing "Right to be forgotton".
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Saturday 20th May 2017 12:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
And the other things...
It's a sad day when the "I" seems more on top of IT developments in politics than the Reg. Has anyone noticed that there are far more newspaper sites coming up in search results than ever before?
More things I'm expecting:
Google adding Newspeak to Google translate, then removing the other languages one by one. Then it turns out that it's not Google doing it but the swivel-eyed loons the public put in charge with a mandate to do this sort of crap.
Harmonisation of our laws with the land of the free from sense rolls towards completion so we can subjugate ourselves to becoming airstrip one. So much for Farage's independence day.
Future historians (of whom there are now only two because of the drastically reduced population) trace the cause of WW3 back to a referendum in 2016.
Everyone is happy because not being so carries the death penalty.
Future policy to be inspired directly from episodes of Black Mirror ("Some people think this has already happened" - DNA).
Things I'd rather have:
An extra option on all voting forms so I can vote for a coalition.
Every government policy must highlight clearly what's in it for the right wing, what's in it for the left wing and what's in it for the intelligent. (see what I did there?)
A government which announces e.g. it will balance the books in 5 years and then takes 7 to tell us it will actually take 15 is called out by every project manager in the land. At the rate that is slipping (more than 2 years every year) who can possibly believe they know what they're doing (unless the plan is to fix it by having a proper big war)?
An opposition who actually want to win an election rather than hope the apocalypse the other side bring on will make them electable by the survivors.
I know this last one is more far fetched than the others, but someone in government who actually has a clue about technology and what the right thing to do with it is.
Also, "Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon"?! WTF?
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
