Jane Fae is a writer, journalist and occasional stand-up with a special interest in LGBT, the law, IT and Italy.
Jane Fae is journalist and campaigner on IT, the law and sexuality. She writes extensively on individual privacy in the face of creeping state intrusion, for Register (the leading IT industry website)
When a young woman embarrassed Matteo Salvini during another of his endless stream of selfies a week or so back: “do that again”, he told her and “we'll break your finger”.
How unaccountable organisations called 'Business Improvement Districts' are just one of a number of attempts to shut down democratic debate in our towns.
Government amendments on care.data have done little to reassure critics of the project - could an alternative amendment still buy some time to sort out the mess?
Every government reassurance about care.data just brings more questions. The bottom line - in whose interests is the government acting when handling England's medical records - just won't go away.
As more revelations emerge about the sale of our hospital data to the insurance industry, misleading claims that a massive expansion in data collection is totally safe, are failing to convince.
Official attempts to inform patients about what will happen to their data when the new care.data database is implemented are inadequate and, on the latest evidence, seriously misleading.
NHS England has still not done enough to inform patients of the privacy-busting implications of the new 'care.data' scheme, former home secretary David Davies tells openDemocracy.
What was once a simple data warehouse for producing statistical information on patient care is to be transformed into a whole life system of universal health surveillance.
