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Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets.

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      1970s. I wasn’t alive then so I don’t know what it was, probably something mi5 put in the water. But since then over 50% of all turkeys that can be bothered to vote, have chosen a pro-xmas candidate.

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    13 hours ago

    People in power making dangerous decisions about things they don’t understand. Recipe for a Good Time. For someone, anyway.

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      What could go wrong giving one unhinged billionaire access the the collective intelligence of multiple sovereign nations.

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        And it’s not like they can claim they didn’t know. Guy’s been ranting about the Antichrist all over the planet for long enough for word to get out!

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    Damn. The security (theater) obsessed Far-Right Labour government wouldn’t be kicking the barn door open to a foreign government’s mass surveillance company for any kind of insidious reason, you think?

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      Nah, i fully believe they just don’t have a clue. I mean, what’s the hypothesis here, that they’re deliberately trying to fight the Antichrist alongside Thiel?

      A podcast i listen to had, a few months ago, a story where a minister who was waxing lyrical about the benefits of AI and was asked something basic like about hallucinations or something and they literally never heard of them. Had no clue what the questioner was talking about

      I think that’s the level that basically all politicians understand technology at