Back in February I posted about how the Government appeared to be caving into demands from the EU and Europol on the sharing of private company data from things like loyalty cards. At the time, the former Home Office minister Joan Ryan said, "the processing of personal data whose relevance have not yet been assessed is strictly limited to the purpose of assessing its relevance".
Yes yes, it's a circular argument that makes no sense I know. However, I bring the subject up again because yesterday in Parliament, the new Home Office minister, Meg Hillier, effectively conceded that the Government would be allowing Europol to datamine such information. She said, again, that any data that mined must be "relevant" for the task.
In other words, we will only allow data sharing of relevant data, but in order to assess what is relevant we must share it all first and then we can find out if it is relevant and share it. Good init?
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Does "being at the heart of Europe" mean that whatever stupid idea is proposed next we have to say "no, but yeah"?
People are strange.
A couple of hundred years or so ago the People of France managed to organise themselves, without the aid of the Internet or any efficient means of communication, into the French Revolution. And, most of them one suspects had not had the benefit of much education.
Today...........
We've got Bicycling Dave; Ever better exam results; Pretend Universities (formerly Technical Colleges); Round the clock binge drinking; MPs with quad bikes; Gorbals Mick..........
And 'All shall be well and all manner of things shall be well'.
Thank God I'm not living in the 'Past'.
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