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

This is really good. Can we talk? I've been part of a Nottingham University project on researcher safety when engaging with hostile online groups.

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

He comes across as someone with delusions of adequacy.

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

Well, that lasted about as long as most of his "deals". When are people going to learn?

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 13h

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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

The threat model isn't just Govt tracking those discrete activities - it's that the ID scheme creates the ability for commercial and even hostile state actors to do so. Imagine Palantir running that database, and Trump agreeing to sell Palantir to the Russians. We're one news cycle away from that.

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

I get your point, but a Blair-inspired ID card scheme makes things wirse, not better. GCHQ have to target their actions; that's not a good reason to give the Home Office a blunderbuss. I agree with a lot of your position generally, just not on this techo-solution to a set of social policy problems.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 12h

And yet you've said people's fear of tracking is unfounded! I don't doubt you're well intentioned, but the glaring contradictions between some of your statements are hard to ignore.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 17h

Tax evasion is fraud.
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Fraud Investigation Service: technical note

www.gov.uk

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 19h

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:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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

www.theguardian.com

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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.

www.faz.net

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 2d

"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 · 2d

So much winning.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 5d

“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.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

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.

futurism.com

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