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Re: Back to EU

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Post by funshed »

The UK has launched a consolution on how to improve Data Protection Laws.

One campaign on this consultation is to abolish the stupid Cookie Consent requirement, that is evidenced again and again to be wholley pointless.

Anouther campaign with this consultation is to enable medical researches to use anonomised NHS data. The National Health Service (NHS) is huge and useing that data could usher in some great medical advancements.

The government cites a project at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the University College London Institute of Ophthalmology where machine learning technology was applied to thousands of historic de-personalised eye scans to identify signs of eye disease and recommend how patients should be referred for care.

There is no plans to weaken GDPR. Even if there was Adam Bird's company is welcome to go above and beyond the requirement.

It's all nonsense, move if you want to. At this stage he doesnt even know what is changeing, to state Brexit and GDPR as the reason is premature.

Re: Back to EU

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Post by Semaphor »

sorokod wrote: post #37
WJW wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite is the word "angstschreeuw" (cry/shout of fear), which is the word with the most consecutive consonants in the Dutch dictionary.

Angst scream?

German/Dutch "Angst" is English "fear", the English word "angst" is more "existential dread".

Re: Back to EU

#53

Post by dboreham »

boyband6666 wrote: post #46
volta83 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Step 0: start driving on the right side of the road Step 1: adopt the euro Step 2: improve education for all ages and groups about misinformation, propaganda, etc. to reduce the chances of a bus driving around london from making you change your minds again in 4 years Step 3: apply to enter as an equal into the EU, instead of trying to cut some half assed deal for half the rights and half the benefits

Step -1: Metric. Everywhere - no more miles!

The horror. It'd be like....Canada.

Re: Back to EU

#54

Post by nivenkos »

nanna wrote: post #26

Honestly what we need in the UK is a Back to the EU campaign that formulates a long term strategy for returning. In two decades England's Baby Boomer generation will no longer hold the reigns of power in the country (please God) and those in charge will have come from a generation that overwhelmingly voted Remain.

The EU has a lot of downsides too though (e.g. the link tax, video age verification laws, mandatory high sales tax, mass immigration).

The UK should try to push to become a high-skilled, high-wage society like Norway and California.

Re: Back to EU

#55

Post by dboreham »

wainstead wrote: post #6

Sometimes I wonder if the GDPR will go down in history like, say, the Magna Carta, a legal construct that changes history.

They're similar in that both are documents that basically say "just do the things you would do if you weren't an arsehole". One is a bit longer though.

Re: Back to EU

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Post by M2Ys4U »

funshed wrote: post #51

The UK has launched a consolution on how to improve Data Protection Laws. One campaign on this consultation is to abolish the stupid Cookie Consent requirement, that is evidenced again and again to be wholley pointless. Anouther campaign with this consultation is to enable medical researches to use anonomised NHS data. The National Health Service (NHS) is huge and useing that data could usher in some great medical ad…

>There is no plans to weaken GDPR

You and I have read a very different consultation document, then.

The UK government absolutely are planning to weaken the UK GDPR.

Re: Back to EU

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Post by Zenst »

nanna wrote: post #26

Honestly what we need in the UK is a Back to the EU campaign that formulates a long term strategy for returning. In two decades England's Baby Boomer generation will no longer hold the reigns of power in the country (please God) and those in charge will have come from a generation that overwhelmingly voted Remain.

Worth noting that the generation that was the majority of leave voters were the children of the voters that joined the EU in the first place.

So I'd not count that children vote with any certainty, let alone use the "think of the children" logic given how that actually panned out.

But if the UK was to rejoin - I'd expect it will be with a clear majority who will embrace the EU beyond seeing it as easy holidays to Spain and day trips to France for cheap booze and fags - As that is how the majority treated it.

Re: Back to EU

#59

Post by bellyfullofbac »

As Bruce Sterling said in Early 2016 [1]:

> Great Britain is becoming Little Britain. The UK is like a giant Cayman Islands in 2016. They used to be the wise and perfidious grownups in the geostrategic room, but now it's all about squalid, petty things like Brexit, Scottish secession, anti-immigration; British political extremes are thriving and the middle is dead as mutton. They've lost their soft-power by the bucketful; people who used to beg for their wise counsel now ignore them. What do they want -- to be Airstrip One for any creep with a trailer-truck full of cash? I've never seen them think so small.

This was even before the Brexit vote, and before BoJo became PM...

[1] https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/487/Bruce-St...

Re: Back to EU

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Post by adambird »

archsurface wrote: post #12

Why posted on the personal blog instead of the company site?

Because I wanted to express my genuinely personal opinion about the situation and the company blog isn't really the place for that. Appreciate that as CEO these lines are blurred but I endeavoured to show some understanding of boundaries by publishing in this way.

We will be providing more formal documentation about how customers can transact with us through the new entity and take advantage of the new oversight.

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