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Sorry, what/who are you referring to?

• inscionent 7y ago
  My guess is Downing Street, Boris Johnson and London's massive network of CCTV, but I'm not sure.
  • Raudius 7y ago
    I think he means Dominic Cummings and his links to Cambridge Analytica during the Brexit campaign
    • atoav 7y ago
      They are at it again apparently.
    • inscionent 7y ago
      Interesting. So hard to keep up. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/07/smash-and-grab-dominic-cummings-democracy https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/07/smash-and-g...
• arethuza 7y ago
  "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-user-data-government-website-sparks-alarm 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.
  • boomskats 7y ago
    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).
• stevenwoo 7y ago
  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-johnsons-right-hand-man/ https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-the-mind-of-boris-joh...