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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 5h

Tax evasion is fraud.
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Fraud Investigation Service: technical note

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 6h

I can recommend the whole discussion here as a multi-disciplinary, good-faith look at the serious policy issues that threaten the viability of the proposed scheme:
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Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme | Richard Oliphant | 81 comments

Hi The PM will announce a mandatory #digital ID scheme for the UK tomorrow. Here are the urgent questions that the national press should ask him and his advisers: 1. How will a national government-i...

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 8h

But by the same token, adding a single unique identifier that must be presented for each interaction (with different services) only makes linkability easier, between contexts that the individual may wish to keep separate. That's the point about the principle of contextual integrity.

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 9h

Can you explain the difference between fraud and not paying tax that you are supposed to pay?

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know what point you're trying to make about imagination vs capacity, but I 'imagine' you don't discuss your health with your bank, or your bank balance with your GP. If you can't keep such things separate in the digital world, your privacy is gone, and not just from the government.
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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 9h

But you yourself have just told Rachel you expect the NHS to check people's entitlement to treatment! How do you *think* they'll do that if an ID card is rolled out?
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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 9h

Second, whether or not people fear *real-time* tracking, they should genuinely be concerned about the tracking and behavioural profiling that happens "after the fact" now, without their knowledge or consent, and which a unique digital identity makes easier for both state and non-state actors. 2/2

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 9h

I think that's a mistaken conclusion in two ways. First, it's not an unfounded fear. Since at least the 90s, with the rise of encrypted communication, UK authorities have said they must have the option of real-time access to such communications. The IP Amendment Act proves they still want that. 1/2

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 9h

That's a very bad idea. Such privacy as people can claw back, in a digital economy, absolutely depends on what Nissenbaum called "contextual integrity": the agency to keep e.g. your bank transactions discrete from your GP visits or your physical location. Mistrust things which erode that agency.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 9h

The underworld economy you describe is actually just as big in EU countries that have ID cards. They don't fix the problem. Neither did the Biometric Residence Permits which were replaced in 2024 by eVisas, and were/are mandatory for non-UK citizens. ID cards are the usual snake oil from Blair.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot take a political party tasked with managing OUR hard earned money seriously if they are going to announce a nonsense £90 billion tax giveaway only to dump it weeks later due to its total lack of credibility.

Reform UK Ltd will bankrupt this country.

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 4d

Die deutsche Blick auf Grossbritannien ist von jeher durch Mythen, Kitsch und Sentimentalitäten verstellt. Auch deshalb weil die Engländer sich gerne selbst so sehen.
Die Realität sieht ein wenig anders aus.
Ein sehr kluges Stück von Eva Ladipo. @faznet.bsky.social

Großbritanniens Demokratie: Auch in England gewinnen die Extremen an Zulauf

Die britische Demokratie ist uralt. Sie gilt als sagenhaft stabil und immun gegen irrationale Emotionen. Damit ist es nun vorbei.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

As I wrote before the legislation even hit parliament www.theguardian.com/media/articl...

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 1d

"Kinder, Kirche, Küche" too woke for them, obviously.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 1d

So much winning.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

If you find my posts interesting and helpful, do check out the fun online course I created on Udemy - hone your bullshit detector today! bsky.app/profile/emma...

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Ness @nesstheenby.bsky.social · 3d

So that's Deutsche Bank, The Bank of England and the IMF warning about the AI bubble bursting now. Oh and JP Morgan's boss and the Federal Reserve Chair

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 3d

A longish op-ed by former Surgeons General Jerome Adams (Trump), Richard Carmona (GW Bush), Joycelyn Elders (Clinton), Vivek Murthy (Obama & Biden), Antonia Novello (GHW Bush) & David Satcher (Clinton).

A few quotes:

🔹️"we are compelled to speak with...

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 3d

And yet in the UK soooo many people are not eligible for a Covid jab. If they want one they need to stump up £90-£99 (as I will next week)

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 5d

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”

New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 3d

Sound.

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who's seen the rampant extent of UK TV advertising for online gambling, of course, will know that Lord Bethell's party had no intention whatsoever of making it harder to do.
#FreeSlots!!! 🤦‍♂️

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