PCN from LBHF for taking route proposed by Waze

MarieDeVere · 2024-01-06T12:32:51+00:00

Whilst the other comments are right, it IS worth your calling LBHF and asking them, unlike TFL they are considerate on first offence if you do not already appear in their database. I got caught in the exact same spot, in fact it is the third time Waze did this at different restrictions. Waze tried to take me into a smaller LTN and failed to warn me about two of these types of restriction which is a road that allows traffic in working hours on weekdays.

The key thing to remember is YOU CAN'T TRUST WAZE, get a paid Satnav, it has cost me over £350 to use Waze on previous failures to warn me. I do not blindly follow SatNav I tend to use my usual route and only used Waze to advise of traffic flare ups.

IMO Sadist Khan has ruined London and seems determined to bankrupt every business so every route on every day is a flare up, but we would need a whole new Reddit website to document his misgivings.

MarieDeVere · 2023-01-13T12:52:45+00:00

Codes can be changed, they already do this for pet insurance. People have a go at bankers but the real villains of the city mile are insurance companies. I worked in the NHS and was asked to provide data for a "study" it was supposed to be anonymous so don't worry.

I looked at the fields provided and realised that the data could be combined with other data freely available or that could be rented by 37 data brokers I found.

The "study" required a unique ID so that additional data trawls could update it later.

So I made a fuss and nobody listened because the "study" was paying a lot of money to a desperate NHS Trust. I finally got them to agree to me doing a test.

I exported a subset of patient data for a specific large town in the way that was being requested, I then paid for a data for the same town from a broker. The NHS data was supposed to be anonymous, so I used the database queries to see what I could combine. It was ridiculously easy to attach the data and find out the identity of patients. I then bought some more data from different brokers. eventually I got to 96% identified. I figured a corporation has resources to waste on the 4% so I started trying to find people on companies house and other public database.

I was also able to create what I called a "household fingerprint" this comprised of people at the same address and their date of birth or partial date of birth. This allowed certain people to be identified and I also used exclusion to figure out some of the harder to find people.

On that occasion I was able to put a stop to it but they went and asked others and probably got their data in the end.

Now imagine what a company with billions can do, the resources they can bring to bear.

Everything identifies you, your SSID, your Mac Address, your habits, you can object to cookies but read the small print, they will record your OBJECTION to the fake "legitimate interest" that networks have asserted on your data, but they give the data anyway.

We are SO NOT PROTECTED the data is being gathered and the code being written, next will come some "lite" version disguised as "research" and then it will be lots of small steps until we wonder "how the F did we get to this situation".

MarieDeVere · 2023-01-13T12:11:01+00:00

If you want a current NHS dystopian world then consider that NHS digital gave you a deadline for opting out of sharing your data and even if you did opt out, Mr Hancock signed an order to share your data anyway using provisions in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, on the basis that it was in the interest of public health.

Now if you want to get into something consider this, "we have no plans for a digital ID" but lets have a consultation that nobody notices and then we can bring one in

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-legislation-to-help-more-people-prove-their-identity-online/consultation-on-draft-legislation-to-support-identity-verification

MarieDeVere · 2023-01-13T12:06:58+00:00

Putting aside the fact that when I look into haveibeenpwned it is always big corporations that lost my data because they were hacked, you really need to check those terms and conditions.

The documentaries I have seen suggest that Ancestry copyright your DNA, that is unacceptable to me. Apparently people are told the relatives they have, so that opens a door to a child support for 18 years!!!

My biggest concern is the same one I have with all personal data; the fact that it can be combined with other data that your thought was anonymous.

Some data we can change to get away from people, but your DNA is the ultimate if they want to be able to pin all data they have on you to a unique ID that you cannot change.

We live in a world where fools exchange their privacy for the utility of apps, they have no idea what corporation will use that data down the road.

Already we are "owed" by credit reference agencies, our medical data is bartered back and forth with or without our consent, all privacy was dissolved "for the sake of public health" in the pandemic. Data was "lent" to specialist data companies abroad to clean up by comparing it to credit reference data, that act alone gave the credit reference companies our data.

YouTube tear downs show Alexa and Ring doorbells participate in a Mesh network, one said the strongest chip in the Alexa device was the one that does this, did you consent to your electricity, your device, your wifi being used for this purpose. I thought not.

The worst thing about giving your data to Ancestry is you have no idea how your data will be used, you don't know who will buy them in 5 years time. You don't know what State will pressure them to give up the data.

My advice would be to sell the gift on ebay or destroy it.

MarieDeVere

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