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Hacker News.

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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[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 9 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

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?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

No fucking shit