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Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet
▻https://thecorrespondent.com/507/black-lives-matter-protesters-arent-being-tracked-with-covid-19-surveillance-tech-not-yet/569187644025-767f5154

A video posted on Twitter sparked fears that Black Lives Matter protesters could be tracked down using Covid-19 contact-tracing technology. It’s a false alarm on this occasion, but without clear protections in place, the question is ‘when’ not ‘if’ our data is misused. Like many of the people who watched Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington talk about how the city had begun analysing the data of people arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest and heard him say, “It’s contact (...)

#santé #publicité #lutte #COVID-19 #métadonnées #technologisme #racisme #migration #géolocalisation #biopolitique #contactTracing #smartphone #Bluetooth #AarogyaSetu_ #algorithme #NHS #BlackLivesMatter #BigData #surveillance # (...)

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The inequalities exposed by this pandemic are about to get even worse | Nesrine Malik | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/31/inequalities-pandemic-worse-lockdown-privilege
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There are workers who have formal contracts that treat their labour as a service performed by a human being who has the right to notice, severance pay and protection from abuse. And there are those who have no protection from the whims of their bosses to dictate their treatment and fate. As the predicted recession bites and unemployment rises, the power that employers have over zero-hours workers grateful to have any income will produce more and more abuses, especially for undocumented workers.
Those workers are themselves part of a larger group of migrants whose legal and formal status will not fortify them against the aftershocks of the pandemic. Accustomed to overpaying for their visas, residence permits and access to the NHS, they have contributed taxes and fees over the years that still do not afford them any access to public funds. For them, there is no safety net.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#travailleurs#pandémie#protection#traitement#accès-santé#santé#droits#GrandeBretagne#NHS#statut

Coronavirus : le réfugié syrien Hassan Akkad vole au secours des hôpitaux anglais - InfoMigrants
▻https://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/24908/coronavirus-le-refugie-syrien-hassan-akkad-vole-au-secours-des-hopitau

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Royaume-Uni : le gouvernement renonce à taxer l’accès aux soins des personnels de santé étrangers
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/05/21/royaume-uni-le-gouvernement-renonce-a-taxer-l-acces-aux-soins-des-personnels

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« Nous dépendons de gens qui viennent de l’étranger pour [faire fonctionner] nos maisons de retraite, je trouve qu’il est monstrueux de traiter ainsi des gens venus d’ailleurs pour aider et risquer leur vie dans des circonstances si difficiles. » William Wragg, président de la commission service public de Westminster, Bob Neill, celui de la commission justice, et Robert Halfon, à la tête de la commission éducation, leur ont emboîté le pas. Tout comme l’Evening Standard, le quotidien dirigé par George Osborne, ex-chancelier de l’Echiquier de David Cameron, qui a appelé Boris Johnson « à faire volte-face avant que cela ne devienne trop embarrassant ».

Covid-19#migrant#migration#personnel-santé#NHS#GrandeBretagne#étrangers#système-santé#accès-santé

I tested the UK’s coronavirus app. Here’s what I found.
▻https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uk-coronavirus-app-testing

The British government is testing a tracking and tracing app on a small island off the coast of England. Its success could determine how the coronavirus pandemic is contained elsewhere When the British government announced last month that it would trial its new coronavirus app on the Isle of Wight, the small island off the south coast of England where I live, there were immediate concerns about our privacy and data protection. In our local newspaper, the County Press, Isle of Wight (...)

#NHS #algorithme #Bluetooth #smartphone #contactTracing #technologisme #BigData #COVID-19 #santé (...)

##santé ##surveillance

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NHS coronavirus advisory board split over ditching government app
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/nhs-coronavirus-advisory-board-split-over-ditching-government-app?CMP=S

Members argue role limited to ethical guidance at meeting over whether to switch to decentralised model The NHS coronavirus app’s advisory board is split over whether it has the authority to tell the government to ditch its version and switch to a decentralised model proposed by Apple and Google. After a meeting on Thursday, it emerged that members argued their role on the board is limited to providing guidance on ethical questions – and not to branch out into a broader discussion of (...)

#Apple #Google #NHS #algorithme #smartphone #contactTracing #géolocalisation #COVID-19 #santé (...)

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(Sort of) Trust but Verify : Palantir Responds to Questions about its work with NHS
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3751/sort-trust-verify-palantir-responds-questions-about-its-work-n

Palantir, the US data giant which works with intelligence and immigration enforcement agencies, has responded to our questions about its work on a highly sensitive National Health Service (NHS) project, providing some assurances, passing the buck to the NHS, and raising additional questions. On 12 April 2020, citing confidential documents, the Guardian reported Palantir would be involved in a Covid-19 data project which "includes large volumes of data pertaining to individuals, including (...)

#Palantir #ICE #NHS #métadonnées #BigData #COVID-19 #santé #BigBrotherWatch #OpenRightsGroup (...)

##santé ##PrivacyInternational

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We need urgent answers about the massive NHS COVID data deal
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/we-need-urgent-answers-about-massive-nhs-covid-data-deal

Why is the UK government refusing to release details of its ‘unprecedented’ data transfer to US tech giants ? If we don’t get answers, we may seek them in the courts. This week openDemocracy and Foxglove, a tech justice start-up, sent a legal letter demanding the UK government urgently publishes details of its controversial patient data deals with big tech companies – struck at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. If we don’t get this information, we will consider suing for publication. Outside (...)

#Palantir #NHS #BigData #COVID-19 #santé #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) (...)

##santé ##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##openDemocracy

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Why BAME people may be more at risk from coronavirus – video explainer | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/may/01/why-bame-people-may-be-more-at-risk-from-coronavirus-video-explainer
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#Covid-19#migrant#migration#minorités#Grande-Bretagne#virus#contamination#NHS

After coronavirus, black and brown people must be at the heart of Britain’s story | Afua Hirsch | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/coronavirus-black-brown-people-britain-ethnic-minorities
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But there was one fundamental problem. The millions of Africans, Asians and other people who came to be regarded as “ethnic minorities” (though they weren’t a minority in the empire) – and who made both this wartime victory, and the new welfare state institutions possible – were not part of the story. And what followed shows that when you exclude people from the narrative, they become excluded in real life. The idea of being entitled to a share in Britishness, and its national wealth, erased the contribution of black, Asian and ethnic minority people. And, over the decades that followed, the breakdown of the social contract – as the state remorselessly cut back its spending and stopped fulfilling its side of the bargain – was blamed on the presence of those visible, allegedly unentitled “outsiders”.
It’s beyond ironic that black and Asian people in Britain underpinned the creation of the institutions that so often define Britishness, not least the NHS. Yet that same postwar era also laid the foundations for the inadequate access to healthcare, housing and secure labour that must be part of the reason why minorities are so disproportionately affected by today’s coronavirus crisis.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#diaspora#minorités#GrandeBretagne#NHS#invisibles#santé-nationale#crise-sanitaire

UK racing to improve contact-tracing app’s privacy safeguards | Technology | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/05/uk-racing-to-improve-contact-tracing-apps-privacy-safeguards

Worries public will not use app after security specialists and MPs raise concerns NHS officials are racing to introduce greater privacy safeguards for the contact-tracing app at the centre of the government’s lockdown exit strategy amid mounting concern from security experts, MPs and users. Whitehall sources conceded to the Guardian that they were “two steps behind in public engagement” because the app – which tracks everyone a user has met and warns them to self-isolate when the user reports (...)

#surveillance #santé #COVID-19 #technologisme #géolocalisation #iOS #smartphone #iPhone #Bluetooth #contactTracing #algorithme #NHS (...)

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UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won’t work well, asks for your location, may be illegal • The Register
▻https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/05/05/uk_coronavirus_app

Herd immunity all over again Comment Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster by failing to listen to global consensus and expert analysis with the release of the NHS COVID-19 contact-tracking app. On Monday, the UK government explained in depth and in clearly written language how its iOS and Android smartphone application – undergoing trials in the Isle of Wight – will work, and why it is a better solution to the one by Apple and Google that other nations have decided to (...)

#Apple #Google #NHS #algorithme #contactTracing #Bluetooth #COVIDSafe_ #smartphone #StopCovid #technologisme #BigData #COVID-19 #santé (...)

##santé ##surveillance

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NHS app lacks privacy « due diligence »
▻https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2020/nhs-app-lacks-privacy-due-diligence

Open Rights Group’s lawyers, AWO, have written to Matt Hancock and NHSX to demand immediate confirmation that they will conduct a full and adequate Data Protection Impact Assessment, consult with the ICO and publish the results. It was confirmed to Parliament on Monday that this risk assessment had not yet been completed, nor had the ICO had sight of it. [1] NHSX is deploying its App in public this week, effectively without completing their data protection privacy obligations. The public (...)

#NHS #algorithme #contactTracing #smartphone #technologisme #métadonnées #BigData #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance (...)

##santé ##OpenRightsGroup

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Press release : 10 questions to Palantir from privacy organisations | Privacy International
▻https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/3732/press-release-10-questions-palantir-privacy-organisations

Today Privacy International and four other UK privacy organisations have sent Palantir 10 questions about their work with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) during the Covid-19 public health crisis. Key points Privacy International, Big Brother Watch, medConfidential, Foxglove, and Open Rights Group have sent Palantir 10 questions about their work with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) during the Covid-19 public health crisis. We are primarily interested in if and how Palantir will (...)

#NHS #PrivacyInternational #BigBrotherWatch #OpenRightsGroup #santé #COVID-19 #BigData #algorithme (...)

##santé ##Palantir

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Peter Thiel’s controversial Palantir is helping build a coronavirus tracking tool for the Trump admin - The Verge
▻https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21230453/palantir-coronavirus-trump-contract-peter-thiel-tracking-hhs-protect-now

The tool is called HHS Protect Now Palantir, an analytics company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel, is supporting the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in building a tool to track the spread of the coronavirus, according to a new report from The Daily Beast. The tool, which is reportedly called HHS Protect Now, is already up and running as of April 10th and it helps officials compile reports on the coronavirus’ spread through the US by collecting data from state and (...)

#HealthandHumanServices-HHS #NHS #surveillance #santé #COVID-19 #BigData #prédiction #police #algorithme #Facebook #CIA #ICE (...)

##santé ##Palantir

NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing | Apps | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/16/nhs-in-standoff-with-apple-and-google-over-coronavirus-tracing

Tech firms place limitations on how tracing apps may work in effort to protect users’ privacy The NHS is in a standoff with Apple and Google after the two tech firms refused to support the UK’s plans for how to build an app that alerts users when they have been in contact with someone with coronavirus. Apple and Google are encouraging health services worldwide to build contact-tracing apps that operate in a decentralised way, allowing individuals to know when they’ve been in contact with an (...)

#bug #technologisme #NHS #surveillance #santé #COVID-19 #BigData #métadonnées #géolocalisation #TraceTogether #smartphone #Bluetooth #algorithme #Google (...)

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Coronavirus : étrangers et minorités ethniques en première ligne dans les hôpitaux britanniques
►https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/04/15/coronavirus-etrangers-et-minorites-ethniques-en-premiere-ligne-dans-les-hopi

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Covid-19 doesn’t discriminate based on immigration status - nor should the Home Office | Privacy International
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3490/covid-19-doesnt-discriminate-based-immigration-status-nor-shou

Privacy International has joined JCWI, Liberty, Medact and other UK civil society organisations to call on Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary to enact urgent changes to ensure the safety of migrants in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Key advocacy points Privacy International has joined JCWI, Liberty, Medact and other UK civil society organisations to call on Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary to enact urgent changes to ensure the safety of migrants in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. One of (...)

#migration #BigData #santé #NHS #PrivacyInternational

##santé

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A crystal ball for the NHS - Palantir, a data firm loved by spooks, teams up with Britain’s health service | Britain | The Economist
▻https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/03/26/palantir-a-data-firm-loved-by-spooks-teams-up-with-britains-health-servic

The contract to help stem covid-19 will cause a stir. But if the work is done in the open, it could be a boon PALANTIR TAKES its name from crystal ball-like artefacts in the “Lord of the Rings” novels. The secretive Silicon Valley data-analysis company is used to working with governments. It carries out vital-but-dull digital plumbing for the most sensitive sorts of data—those collected by spy and security agencies. It merges datasets, cleans them and plugs holes, and provides tools which (...)

#Fujitsu #Oracle #Palantir #CIA #algorithme #BigData #santé #NHS

##santé

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Offline: COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal”, by Richard Horton - The Lancet
▻https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30727-3/abstract

édito du Lancet :

“When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety.” So wrote one National Health Service (NHS) health worker last weekend. The scale of anger and frustration is unprecedented, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the cause. The UK Government’s Contain–Delay–Mitigate–Research strategy failed. It failed, in part, because ministers didn’t follow WHO’s advice to “test, test, test” every suspected case. They didn’t isolate and quarantine. They didn’t contact trace. These basic principles of public health and infectious disease control were ignored, for reasons that remain opaque. The UK now has a new plan—Suppress–Shield–Treat–Palliate. But this plan, agreed far too late in the course of the outbreak, has left the NHS wholly unprepared for the surge of severely and critically ill patients that will soon come. I asked NHS workers to contact me with their experiences. Their messages have been as distressing as they have been horrifying. “It’s terrifying for staff at the moment. Still no access to personal protective equipment [PPE] or testing.” “Rigid command structures make decision making impossible.” “There’s been no guidelines, it’s chaos.” “I don’t feel safe. I don’t feel protected.” “We are literally making it up as we go along.” “It feels as if we are actively harming patients.” “We need protection and prevention.” “Total carnage.” “NHS Trusts continue to fail miserably.” “Humanitarian crisis.” “Forget lockdown—we are going into meltdown.” “When I was country director in many conflict zones, we had better preparedness.” “The hospitals in London are overwhelmed.” “The public and media are not aware that today we no longer live in a city with a properly functioning western health-care system.” “How will we protect our patients and staff…I am speechless. It is utterly unconscionable. How can we do this? It is criminal…NHS England was not prepared…We feel completely helpless.”

Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19 | Privacy International
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/examples/tracking-global-response-covid-19

Tech companies, governments, and international agencies have all announced measures to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Some of these measures impose severe restrictions on people’s freedoms, including to their privacy and other human rights. Unprecedented levels of surveillance, data exploitation, and misinformation are being tested across the world. Many of those measures are based on extraordinary powers, only to be used temporarily in emergencies. Others use exemptions in (...)

#BigData #santé #surveillance #géolocalisation #PrivacyInternational #Deutsche_Telekom #Google #Vodafone #Facebook #Twitter #WhatsApp #smartphone #GPS (...)

##santé ##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##NHS
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Google ’betrays patient trust’ with DeepMind Health move
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/14/google-betrays-patient-trust-deepmind-healthcare-move

Moving healthcare subsidiary into main company breaks pledge that ‘data will not be connected to Google accounts’ Google has been accused of breaking promises to patients, after the company announced it would be moving a healthcare-focused subsidiary, DeepMind Health, into the main arm of the organisation. The restructure, critics argue, breaks a pledge DeepMind made when it started working with the NHS that “data will never be connected to Google accounts or services”. The change has also (...)

#Alphabet #Google #DeepMind #algorithme #terms #santé #NHS

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Pharma, profit & politique 1/5 : #Afrique_du_Sud

Opposition contre le prix des traitements du cancer du sein

Le #prix exorbitant des médicaments est un problème global qui prive des millions de personnes à travers le monde des traitements essentiels dont elles ont besoin. En réaction, plusieurs initiatives de la société civile se sont formées pour garantir un meilleur accès aux médicaments. Parmi elles, #RocheGreedKills en Afrique du Sud se bat pour un traitement contre le #cancer du sein abordable. Les géants de la pharma, eux, tentent d’empêcher virulemment toute nouvelle réforme.

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Les ravages de la fétichisation des p-valeurs et du biais de publication, en une diapo :

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Dans le contexte de la vidéo, ’truquée’ = hypothèse réellement fausse, ’Équilibrée’ = hypothèse réellement vraie.

Je l’ai trouvée particulièrement claire, c’est facile de s’emmêler les pinceaux quand on veut expliquer les tests d’hypothèses. Le papier de Ioannidis va plus loin en terme de modélisation mais cette approximation est suffisante pour une exposition rapide.

#pvalue #publicationBias #statistics #NHST

As a doctor, I can see that denying #NHS care to immigrants is inhumane

The government’s charging regime risks costing the lives of thousands of people who can’t pay, such as Albert Thompson, who moved here 44 years ago.

Last week, the Guardian reported on the case of Albert Thompson, a man who came to London 44 years ago from Jamaica, at a time when many people from Commonwealth countries were migrating to the UK. This includes, of course, the thousands of nurses from Jamaica recruited in response to the NHS staffing crisis of the 1950s and 60s. Thompson’s mother was in fact one of these nurses.

In November 2017, Thompson, suffering from prostate cancer, was told he could not continue to receive treatment unless he paid a staggering £54,000 upfront. Unable to pay, he was denied further care. This comes within the first month of the introduction of upfront payments, one facet of the government’s policy of charging for NHS services provided to people who aren’t “ordinarily resident” – in practice, charges for immigrants. The charging policy was first introduced under Gordon Brown in 2009, and extended in 2014 as part of a series of Conservative-led hostile environment measures. This is why Docs Not Cops – the campaign group I am part of – was set up: to campaign for free healthcare for everyone, whatever their immigration status.

▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/doctor-nhs-care-government-albert-thompson
#accès_aux_soins #santé #frontières #frontières_mobiles #migrations #sans-papiers #UK #Angleterre #inégalité #pauvreté #pauvres #Albert_Thompson #la_frontière_est_partout (du coup : #monde-frontière —> concept de #Paolo_Cuttitta que je devrais utiliser plus souvent comme tag ici)