There follows a guest post by our in-house technology correspondent. He wrote a series of pieces for Lockdown Sceptics about the NHS Covid-tracking app last year and now he returns to the fray to cover the NHS vaccine app.
All that is missing from the dystopian movie that our lives have become is a Bond-style henchman, created through diabolical processes by the wicked super villain. Speaking of which, Michael Gove has a cunning plan to fill that gap. The runt of the NHS app litter, whose creators couldn’t even be bothered to give it a name beyond “The NHS App” has been selected for a set of maniacal modifications transforming it from a lacklustre dictionary of medical conditions into a cyber-bully fit to harass and torment a nation. As we shall see, this once unloved and overlooked app is set to become the accomplice and collaborator of scammers, blackmailers and fraudsters.
According to the Daily Mail, Gove envisages a world where you can’t just go somewhere freely: you have to be permitted by a state-operated app that displays your medical records to unwitting restaurant owners, bar staff, and presumably anyone with an authoritarian streak who sees themselves as an agent of our new bio-security state. It is morally and ethically bankrupt, but technically, could it work? What we know about its implementation is sketchy, but we can contemplate what would be involved.
To prove you have had a jab you must show the relevant entry on your medical record, which is held by your GP, assuming you are registered with one and you didn’t opt out of summary care records in the past. If you are a tourist or business traveller from abroad that rules you out. No Diet Coke for you. Those records are the most personal, private data possible and there is rightly a lot of security around who can access them. Indeed, this information is considered so private that in 2004 the NHS instructed BT to build an entirely separate national network just to handle it! Now for the app to work, any random member of the public needs access to that private data, by connecting to the correct medical record at the correct GP surgery. Get that wrong and you are exposing medical records on a massive scale.
The NHS was already working on a system to do this, called NHS Login. It has various levels of “proofing”, and access to medical records requires the highest, known as level nine. Proof level nine is simple: enter your email address and create a new password, accept the terms and conditions and wait for the validation email, return to the app and enter your full name, date of birth and the postcode that you gave your GP, accept the two check boxes for the terms and conditions, get your passport, UK drivers’ licence or EU ID card, and use your phone to take a photo of it and answer some questions about it then allow the app to take a picture of your face unless flashing lights and colours make you feel unwell in which case you can record a video of yourself reading out some numbers instead, submit and wait up to two hours for email saying that your picture is ok. Got that?
That’s your NHS Login account set up, now to find your GP surgery. Let’s hope they have one of the seven recognised systems in which case you get an email from your GP confirming the connection. Or it might be from a scammer, it’s hard to tell. This is a big problem. The onboarding process puts you in a frame of mind where you are clicking anything, getting emails, taking photos of identity documents and you just want to get to the end of the process so you can go to the pub. If you get lost or distracted or have a question or just want to ask someone about it all, then the opportunities for scammers to insert themselves into the process are endless. At which point they have your most fundamental identity documents and access to your medical records to boot. Blackmail, extortion and fraud are sure to follow.
If they get this wrong, they will truly have created a monster for our technocratic age. An enabler of identity theft and medical data leakage on a national scale, exposing every embarrassing medical episode and blackmailable exploit imaginable. Scammers, crooks, and menaces around the world must be licking their lips.
Beyond the setup process, how does Gove’s fever-dream play out? If you have a jab the app will not know until it makes its way onto your summary care record at your GP. How long will that take? What is your status in the meantime? What if it never appears? Who you do call to fix it, your GP? If it is on your record when does the app consider immunity to be effective, how many weeks after the jab? Is it the same for all vaccines? Does it consider you immune after just one jab or will you be forced to wait for a second jab? And how long does it consider immunity to last? Your app could be showing green for months, then just as you are going to your daughter’s wedding, oops red, the app thinks you need a booster shot. No wedding for you. And if you can go to the wedding if you can show you’ve tested negative, who puts those tests on your medical record? Lateral flow tests are easy to do at home, but it would be too easy to fake a negative if you could write your own record. So, it will have to be carried out by an official at their convenience not yours, and the result will have to make its way onto your GP-held record. How long will that take? It had better be quick because the result is only valid for two days.
The doughty few that make it through the setup process will be rewarded by an app that puts them at the whim of NHS data entry clerks and ever-changing rules from public health panjandrums. They will live in a constant state of anxiety, fearful that it will turn from showing green to red and all their plans will be on hold for an arbitrary time with no reliable way to fix it.
I can only appeal to any developer building this app to realise what they are doing and make a stand. Refuse to work on it. Consider it as bad as any spyware, ransomware, virus, or weapon system. It is going to make a lot of people’s lives miserable and that is not why you went into software.
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https://thenewconservative.co.uk/if-i-were-a-marxist/
An excellent complimentary article from the very, very very Ffaaarrr Right Editor of Country Squire magazine. An eloquent summary of all the treasonous acts being committed by Kneel and his bunch of bandits.
Country Squire is mostly Far White.
Why does Labour want to crack down on free speech?
Because they want power. Because they want total, unrestricted, absolute power.
Nothing else matters; the rest is “dressing”.
It is really that simple. If we assume there is anything else to it, we are deluding ourselves.
beat me to it.
A cowed and fearful populace is only ever the reason for their actions.
I believe the election of 2024 could well be the last in this country. I am absolutely certain though that we on DS will definitely not recognise this country by June next year. God knows where we will be.
Violence could be inevitable considering the, shall we call them Globalist Left, are at the top of all of the institutions that matter, and are brainwashing the next generation that wouldn’t know free speech if it locked them into their college campuses. I do worry about it, but maybe it has to happen and hope that it is over quickly.
We will have morphed into a cross between Nigeria and Bangladesh. This ofcourse will be celebrated by the Amy Michel Turners of this world until a family of 10 Syrians move into the 5 bedroom house next door to them, all funded by the mug taxpayers.
Do not lose hope.
A feeling of hopelessness and resignation suits them just fine.
Ultimately they will lose.
Herod killed all the babies… but the one he was actually looking for just happened to be in Egypt.
Correct. Also correct is the fact that I’ve come across cat turds putrefying in my back garden that are more appealing and trustworthy than Herr Starmer. Basically, he hates us and we reciprocate that sentiment;
”The far right is a “very real threat” which needs to be combatted, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Asked how worried he was about the far right at home and abroad, Sir Keir told broadcasters: “I am worried about the far right. I’m worried about populism and nationalism and the politics of the easy answer, the snake oil, if you like.
“It’s very important that we have a debate about how we confront that. My own personal view is that through delivery, through showing there are progressive, democratic answers to the many challenges we face, is the way forward.”
Sir Keir previously condemned this summer’s unrest in the UK as “far-right thuggery”.
In a speech in the Downing Street rose garden on Tuesday, the PM said the riots “revealed a deeply unhealthy society… weakened by a decade of division and decline, infected by a spiral of populism which fed off cycles of failure of the last government”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkm8mg4md4o
”Sir Keir Starmer’s ratings have reached a record low. He has plummeted from +11, dropping 27 points to -16.
-63% think his govt was more “interested in helping themselves & their allies” than ordinary people
-53% think Labour was somewhat or very corrupt
-42% believe Labour & Tories are “equally likely to make corrupt decisions or give senior roles to their friends and allies”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/28/keir-starmer-approval-rating-lowest-record-cronyism-scandal/
Zer is no Katz Turden in die garten auf Oberststurmbanfurher Starmer. Vee have vays to make ze migrants cleen up ze shitten
Because they know that their policies will not be popular with or supported by the majority of the people given that despite their landslide on seats barely less than 20% of the electorate voted for them.
Because they are Socialists and that’s what Socialists do – it’s called Socialism.
Why is Labour so determined to crack down on free speech? Because it’s what socialists do. Simple.
The tories were doing the same albeit at a slower pace. Both parties will continue down this path. Why do they do it? Because we have a uniparty state and they take their orders/agenda from the same people.
I think Starmer’s had a bit too much of the old ‘truth serum’ here. Oh well, better out than in, that’s what I always say;
https://x.com/ThatJBT/status/1825866917724188937
There. Fixed it and answered it one go.
Scuffing a copy of the Quran would be a capital crime in some countries.
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1829105709310410834
“(that is to say, the ‘perception’ of the ‘victim’ is what counts, rather than actual evidence of hatred)”
Well that goes against the presumption of innocence for a start, violating Common Law. I know these zealots are trashing those laws and values but it is worth pointing out just how far this country has fallen.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/things-can-only-get-worser/
Roger Watson laments the passing of Great Britain.
“The pace of change is as brazen as it is astonishing. Starmer has the ‘super majority’, essentially, to push through Parliament and on to (or off) the statute books whatever takes his fancy. He not only intends to do that and is already doing it; he reckons he needs at least ten years to complete his mission. God only knows what else he and his team of wreckers have in store for Britain and the British way of life.”
“The murder of Sir David Amess had precisely nothing to do with social media, and yet politicians immediately began to argue that his death was evidence of the need to curb free speech online”
And don’t forget the Patriot Act. If it was about security, why keep importing potential terrorists when, at same time, cracking down on US citizens and their basic rights violating their own Constitution. But maybe you think that is a conspiracy theory Andrew, and we know you have no time for them.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/totalitarian-starmer-leaves-a-hole-where-british-values-used-to-be/
John Hale over at TCW on totalitarian SStarmer.
There are too many words in this article. If it’s not against the law, the police has no business dealing with it. Monitoring stuff which ‘could’ turn into actual dangers is the job of a secret service which is secret because this monitoring requires secrecy of operations.
Whether or not the government of a a supposedly free state should spy on its own population “just in case someone might be sliding into something illegal” (only applicable to someones who aren’t muslims as this would otherwise be islamphobia — anglophobia is obviously fine!) would be a different question.
This has to be the easiest question I ever had to answer. —–The Establishment Political Class have agenda’s and they cannot stand them being questioned in any way whatsoever. Whether that be mass immigration, climate change, covid policy or whatever. It really is as crude as that.
Here is the new Free Speech Tsar.——– FREE SPEECH IST VERBOTEN
Dear old Heinrich.
No it is Reinhard
“It should go without saying that the police have no business recording ‘non-crime’, particularly when such records are based on accusations alone (that is to say, the ‘perception’ of the ‘victim’ is what counts, rather than actual evidence of hatred).”
Perhaps all we have to do to bring it home to our dear leader (I’ll try not to say anything that might be interpreted as hateful), of how stupid the law of non-hate crime is, is for DS readers to report him for being hateful towards ordinary people who happen to express an opinion a little to the right of his Marxist/Trotskyist ideology? After all it is the perception that matters apparently not the evidence. But evidence we have a plenty do we not, since the ordinary person is the victim here.
Communists hate free speech because they know their case is so
weak
It requires a complex answer in terms of the ideological framework that they profess to have which is actually just service to big money. Starmer is a Trilateral Commision man. Their whole role is to install puppets who are conducive to Anglo-American banking interests. You are debt slaves now. You can spend your pennies at the company store and the prices can be very capricious. You have to put a stop to this because pretty soon you will have nothing left save your eyes to cry with.
Poor Yvette. How anxious she must be to the point of sleeplessness over all those pre-hate pre-crime incidents that the servants of the state cannot detect. The temptations to impatience and the tremors of loss of temper that float across a person’s mind in the course of an ordinary day. The dim frissons of dislike that may flicker through any person’s nervous system as the world around them impinges on it.
In any case, no emotion, not even even hate, can be maintained for long. Except on a database.
Your country is what American soldiers call ‘FUBAR’. That is to say, effed up beyond all recognition. I don’t even understand it anymore. It was always precarious trying to buy a kebab at 2am in the morning. Now it is just evil. What were you thinking? That this dreamboat would just go on forever enriching you? I am sorry to say that I have learned through hard experience that it doesn’t work like that. The numbers are too great now there is no way back. Your country is destroyed and only a fractionn will fight back. You sold your country for a few cheap bucks, the thrill of cheap labour, cheap restaurants, cheap nannies. Now you will learn the price of selling out.
I don’t think that the “Tory Government should have eliminated the entire practice in its entirety”; I think it should have “entirely eliminated the entire practice in its entirety”.
Lol. Sorry, just having a laugh – Mr Doyle is entirely right in every respect, entirely.
Two-Tier Keir is morphing into Keir Stalin before our eyes.
But he appears to have aspirations to emulate Fat Kim of North Korea.
https://open.substack.com/pub/alexkrainer/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain?r=jx6c3&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
This may explain why. As usual most writers on the DS fail to dig far enough down to explain what is going on and seem happy enough to remain in the Left-Right ‘democracy’ bubble.
Re. the murder of Denis Amess MP, the GCHQ whistle blower Katherine Gunn was very suspicious of how the police services behaved in the immediate aftermath. Problem, solution, reaction.
It is part of a pattern of behaviours seen worldwide with politicians in government and their civil servants following the bidding of external interests to the degree of ignoring the interests of the peoples of their own countries.
Whilst we – the proles and great unwashed – get bits and pieces – snippets – about powerful groupings like Bilderberg and WEF.
Who are the string-pullers’ string-pullers?
What ordinary people need is information. What discussions take place between politicians, civil servants and these external interests. What are these anti-democratic activities directed to achieving.
It is impossible to counter an enemy you cannot see.
Has anyone else noticed that some comments are not getting posted when you click ‘Post Comment’?
I have been experimenting and find that deleting some paragraphs and keeping others in draft comments works.
But I am unclear what it might be about the deleted paragraphs the DS comment system will not include in a comment.
A glitch or bots censoring comments?
Ideas anyone?
Why?? Isn’t that obvious! What type of regimes crack down on speech !??