Jack Allnutt @jack@allnutt.net

This was a very interesting article to read about the decision making in the UK over the past few weeks: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/04/real-reason-uk-government-pursued-herd-immunity-and-why-it-was-abandoned

#UKPol #COVID19

Nevermind, turns out the postie was just delivering a little later today than usual!

I has coffee! 😁

I haven't had a coffee in about a month, so I decided to buy a mini espresso machine so I could make some while on lockdown.

I decided it would be better to support a local independent roasting company rather than buy from Amazon, but the coffee hasn't arrived yet.

Now I have a machine just sitting on the kitchen counter taunting me with the fact I can't make a brew :(

Ugh, Apple have bought Dark Sky and are killing the Android app, API and website. For fucks sake...

@InternetKevin He *should*, but he won't.

He's also an antivaxxer and a freeman-on-the-land 🤦‍♂️

Oh great. The new independent councillor on Manchester City Council has been calling COVID-19 a hoax. 🤦‍♂️

#manchester #COVID19 #ukpol

@nickbarreto @cubicgarden

There's no emergency notification system set up in the UK, so it's somewhat ad-hoc

This is great article on COVID-19 and the whole "herd immunity" misunderstanding/miscommunication

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-herd-immunity-uk-boris-johnson/608065/

@torgo Why wouldn't it be?

If the status quo ante were to be maintained it would be an Irish Ltd who's the data controller, would that make you think twice about the legality?

My biggest worry now, though, is that the ICO is weak and incompetent. The Irish DPC is too but data subjects have the EDPB and CJEU as a backstop there.

@torgo (the UK GDPR is literally just the EU GDPR with the cross-border bits deleted and powers that the Commission had now rest with the Secretary of State)

@torgo you'll still be covered by the EU GDPR until the end of the transition period, then the UK GDPR going forwards. The latter maintains the extraterritoriality of the former.