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   Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 05:42:02 JST Nick

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   @pikesley The problem with the Horizon Scandal was that it wasn’t ambitious enough. We want to be able to gun down people at the supermarket because they accidentally got the same ID number as Osama Bin Laden.

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     Wu-Tang Yutani Corporation (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 05:42:04 JST Wu-Tang Yutani Corporation

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     @Nickiquote what if we really massively scaled-up the Horizon Scandal?

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     Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 05:42:05 JST Nick

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     But so long as we throw billions of pounds at some big IT firm to be extremely late with this and then for it not to work properly, it’ll all be worth it.

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     Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 05:42:06 JST Nick

     A new digital government ID?

     Oh good, my National Insurance Number, Passport Number, Driving Licence Number, Unique HMRC Reference Code and NHS Number were getting lonely.

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     JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 16:47:34 JST JuneSim63

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     Rightwing billionnaire Larry Ellison's Oracle wants to get its mitts on all our lovely UK data. Ellison has donated £257m to Tony Blair's institute. Blair is hot on ID cards & pulls Starmer's strings.

     "The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed and used by the AI model,” Ellison responded.

     “The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data,” he declared, but it was too “fragmented” at present"

     https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the-tony-blair-institute-larry-ellison-peter-kyle-starmer