More life-changing decisions will be made solely by AI if the Data Use and Access Bill (UK) passes.

The right to human review was used to challenge the A-Level algorithm when it was used to downgrade students during the pandemic.

This could be lost in most circumstances, letting loose discriminatory AI.

#DataBill #DUABill #AI #dataprotection #GDPR #ukpolitics

theguardian.com/education/2021…

The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future

The long read: Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands

^{Tom Lamont (The Guardian)}

The UK exported 8,500 tonnes of pesticides last year that are banned on British farms because of the dangers they pose to human health and nature.

Under British law, when a pesticide is banned, the ban does not extend to its production or export. This leaves companies free to keep manufacturing these products in the UK to be sold in countries with weaker regulations.

#Pesticides #Pollution #PublicHealth #UKPolitics #Brazil #Canada #Mexico

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/…

‘Ultimate hypocrisy’: UK exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides last year

^{Naira Hofmeister (Unearthed)}

We currently have the right not to be subject to a legal or significant decision based solely on automated processing.

The UK Data Bill removes this right n most circumstances. This will exacerbate power imbalances by requiring individuals to scrutinise and assert their rights against decisions made by AI.

Our letter 🔖 openrightsgroup.org/app/upload…

#DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that'll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI.

The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review!

Read our open letter ⬇️

#DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…

Letter to Peter Kyle: Keep our right not to be subjected to decisions based solely on AI

Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by automated or AI systems.

^{Open Rights Group}

Here in the U.K., alongside the pro Putin Ukrainian Dmitri Firtash, Angola's Isobel Dos Santos and Latvia's Aivars Lemburgs have also been sanctioned by the U.K. government today in a welcome move to crack down on oligarchs using the U.K. to launder money.

If you want to know how Labour are different to the Tories, here's an easy way to remember -

Labour : sanction oligarchs.

Tories : take donations from oligarchs.

#UKPolitics
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gov.uk/government/news/uk-crac…

UK cracks down on dirty money with fresh sanctions

UK sanctions kleptocrats, firing starting gun on a new Foreign Secretary campaign against dirty money

^{Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (GOV.UK)}

Privatised Utilities

Overseas investors bought into the principle of tied profits, little risk, massive dividends (either directly or by siphoning off money through loans from overseas vultures, whoops investors) and no down side.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Thatcher must be proud. Now the great extrication.

#UkPolitics #Water #Privatisation #Utilities #Theft #Greed #Corruption

Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed

Exclusive: Company has failed to tackle serious safety concerns or upgrade vital IT systems, Guardian investigation reveals

^{Anna Isaac (The Guardian)}

Breaking: UKGov admits that it granted the Rosebank licence unlawfully because it didn't consider the climate impacts of burning the oil.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2dx…

#UkPolitics #Climate #COP29 #StopRosebank

Government admits new Rosebank oil field approved unlawfully

Climate campaigners are bringing a legal case they hope will halt drilling at two huge fossil fuel projects.

^{James Cook (BBC News)}