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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 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/…


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…


''One of the most powerful images of the protests that the farmers made in London was the coats that the people were wearing. ...I'm told a thousand pounds a pop is quite likely. They were very expensive, oil Barbours, or the equivalent. And these people are claiming they're making twenty thousand a year but can wear the sort of garment that, frankly, most of us cannot imagine buying. "
taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/1…
#ukPolitics


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…


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


'Mr Lammy, you are a genocide denier,’ says UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese
youtube.com/watch?v=a_VL18YzOf… (3 minute video, English Lang., No Paywall)
#ShameOnTheUK #ShameOnDavidLammy #DavidLammy #UKPolitics #Genocide #UN #UK #Israel #Palestine


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