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And yet in the UK we have a notorious data miner in the heart of No 10 giving an edict for all data from government websites to be fed into a central location for targetting.


Sorry, what/who are you referring to?


"Data privacy campaign groups and Labour have expressed alarm after it emerged Downing Street has ordered departments to centralise the collection and analysis of user information from the government’s main public information website ahead of Brexit."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/no-10-request-...

Edit: I wonder if this includes the petition site?? Can't say that I'd be too keen on the Dark Lord Cummings getting the details of my personal petition history!

Edit2: Yes, I know that's not his official job title, at least not yet.


I actually think it is specifically targeting petitions.gov.uk, under the guise of the 'wider gov.uk' scope.

It's the only part of that site I can see BJ actually giving enough of a shit about to go out of his way and double down on at this point. The rest of the gov.uk stuff is already very well managed and instrumented (and a great public service).


Dominic Cummings, who openly discusses how he would use government's access to data about the public for his idea of the better ala his prior work with the Brexit referendum/movement. https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-the-mind-of-boris-joh...


My guess is Downing Street, Boris Johnson and London's massive network of CCTV, but I'm not sure.


I think he means Dominic Cummings and his links to Cambridge Analytica during the Brexit campaign



They are at it again apparently.




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