@peterlee Best move on from the cast of Alice in Wonderland, who are running the British Government today.

@peterlee For me, the Mad Hatters Tea Party lies in the fact that millions of people happily hand over their data every day to multi-national corporations with poor records of data security. They do not ask questions about what their details are being used for and private companies are bound by much looser rules on data security than public bodies. Yet when a government proposes using that same data for specific and limited purposes to improve public services (and fund a full public consultation in advance), this somehow feeds into the unthinking narrative that all governments are attempting to restrict freedom of speech.

@SunshineGirl Byung Chul Han makes those points.

But there are two ways we negate it, where our hope lies.
Big data is stored, and is acted upon as a complete memory.
We act upon a diverse set of memories, which may be inaccurate, and incomplete. Therefore our actions cannot be totally predicted.
Secondly, we do not react predictably to a discontinuity in our lives both personally for in society. Such as the death of a daughter, or an unexpected pandemic.

@gol979 I think you have nailed it in one.

Let’s face it freedom of speech has gone.

@peterlee

It’s all about collecting our data, even supermarket loyalty cards.

We get a choice though and we just go along with it.

@Achelois At Dunhelm Mill they ask for your email for a paperless receipt.

I say ‘l don’t know your email. You don’t know mine. Let’s keep it that way.’ She smiles.

@peterlee

Same!