Charter for Emerging Technology

The issue with these statements is that it starts with an assumption on the need to collect and share information on people and their consumption of services. Whilst there is no doubt that big data can be mined and re-sold for commercial advantages, is this a default "necessary" starting point? This invites the obvious data breach questions and what the level of GDPR compensation and penalty payouts would be over time. There is a long list of companies that never thought they would be victims.

Why is the default that people have opted into the data hoarding, rather than a default of excluded until explicitly approved. Look at Apple as an example of good practice in this space.

Why can't services be designed to work efficiently with anonymised data?

Does a local IT outage mean people can't access services? Services need to be simplified and not overly rely on IT systems (already an assumption of everyone having to pay for that infrastructure) to gain access to services. Why should those unable to use or afford access be disadvantaged? Terminals would need to be provided and people provided on hand to help access services.

The myriad of on-line payment systems backed up by a profitable and unfair penalty system for TFL, Council and private services, points to a broken vision motivated by squeezing ever increasing funds for the same services by fragmenting them based on data. A trip to the local recycling centre soon turns into a ULEZ online payments, online booking slots with specific waste types, being told you can't return within x days. This needs to be simplified. Too much resources go into running and maintaining these specialised systems.

Very worthy principles but until we get everybody in London with equal access to technology it will always be flawed. The backbone needs to be built first and this is currently monopolised (almost) by BT Openreach. I'd like to see the backbone installation come under the auspices of the Mayor of London. This would provide jobs for young people and perhaps call on older workers to become trainers.

In the summary principles there is ambiguity in the use of the word "we". In the first principle "we" share info with City Hall: in the second we appear actually to be City Hall.

One principle should be that in describing the purpose of some IT function, care should be taken to give warning if the function has the capacity to go beyond that purpose: for example, in the "Internet of things" a function to operate some piece of equipment might also have the capacity to send a signal elsewhere. I am not sure if this is covered by "Being clear about any additional functionality".

I am all for maximising the use of IT. But for the foreseeable future there is going to remain a sizable portion of the population (?10%) who are not at home with IT. We need to have as a principle that nobody should be obliged to use IT in order to lead a satisfactory daily life: for example, people should not be forced to use IT in order to pay a bill, make purchases etc.

Also I think that Elderly Patients who have no family and they rely on carers to come and visit them at their homes have CCTV installed in their homes . As i have also had to deal with a carer who was taking liberties in turning up when she liked but she was writing in the care file that she was at the House seeing my mother each day at
09:00 am . I knew she was not as i was there helping the carer in fact most days , as I was doing her job for her .
This lady was getting paid to do a hours work in the Mornings but not once in the time did she ever wash my mum's hair . The carer even wore earphones and could not hear when the Nurse came because she was to busy listening to the Pastor . Also she was taking personal calls and in the end I sacked her . I complained to Elderly Care Social Worker to which we had about 3- 4 different ones last year . Hackney Council has been held to ransom . What is happening with this situation ? as Hackney Website is still not up and running & no more has been mentioned about this .
I EVEN took photographs of the care file and sent it to the Company that sent out this carer but they was not interested and have not bothered getting back to me . It was alright when Captain Tom raised all that money for the NHS what about all the Elderly Patients that have been left in Urine - Poo and I'm sure there has been Elderly Patients that even died at home due to lack of care from carers before this Corona CRAP . If 5G is going to be such a great thing then I suggest that firstly the ones who have made it through Corona and want to stay in their own homes that more is done to look after their well being .

Firstly I would like to add the if we are moving forward with technology . How many new hospitals are being built over the next few years ? I suggest that UK Hospitals get some kind of Personal Camera for each Patient that is being admitted , as the Goverment says this Scam- Pandemic of this man made virus is never leaving us and instead of staff standing with Patients with I- pads
. Would it not be better for each patient's relatives to be able to see how their loved ones are being treated by your NHS staff , as there is many lies being told about Patients Care & unless a Patients family is there to see or catch the staff mistreating then it is their word against the family or Patient . I know this as i walked in on the last 3 minutes of my mother breathing . I was told by the Nurse my Mother was asleep , to which she was unconscious and after shouting at the Nurse she then told me *she laid my Mother Flat in the bed because she kept moving down the bed* but in report from #homertonhospital it says that *perhaps the Nurse forgot to sit my mother back up* really you think I am taking that excuse . Even the Consultant did not return my call from 09:30 because apparently he forgot to call me . I do not know what kind of shit show the hospital is running but there has been loads of Killer Nurses that have got away with killing patients or they have sexually assaulted, even children . Can you tell me why Prisoners have a phone & can video call but if in hospital you can not ?
I see all the new cameras about on the streets which have appeared over night what exactly are they for ?
It seems that you are not able to catch CRIMINALS who stab , shoot , even rape but CCTV picked up the White Boy who was sunbathing in the Park - on the day of the stabbing at Essex Rd .
How comes you can not find criminals who have been nicking our Mail since the block got put up ?

tagging system on their staff as not so long ago one of the staff stole a patients Debit Card

I think that it is important that there are possible alternatives to everything being technology based only as not everyone can adapt to how fast technology is moving. There should be more assistance (eg perhaps at libraries or classes) but definitely points of contact for assistance, preferably with people. I expect there are those already working on the latest scams so I hope there are those working on the best security also.

Everything should be automated what can be automated and everything what can be done online should be online.

Respecting diversity:
Technology must be used and set up the way it does not discriminate in any way. Not even in a positive way as there are more and more examples where previously disadvantaged and discriminated groups are becoming advantaged compared to others. Neither positive nor negative discrimination is good! Help for those in need is another matter. It should not be mixed up with discrimination.

Trustworthiness:
Option for opting out for residents is good. At the same time we must ensure transparency of use of public money and transparency of decision making as well as transparency of oversight of any public moneys and decisions.

The principles are good, a possible addition would be ‘Purpose’ - that technology and innovation will be pursued and deployed for the benefit of citizens and nature. In practice this should mean that new proposals must be able to demonstrate a credible case for the benefits they could generate for the city, I.e. we are not interested in new tech for the sake of it, we are focused on the value it can unlock for the city.

Alternative means of accessing and using public services and public facilities must be retained, or provided for new services, for anyone unable for whatever reason to use digital technology. Reasons for such inability are many and can include fear, education, poverty, language, physical limitations and no doubt many more.

I think the 'Great Reset' which is a World Economic Forum agenda introduced by Schwab (4th & 5th technological revolutions), not just a UK one is veering the world in a very disturbing direction. As much as technology interconnects our society on all levels it also has a devastating affect on social interaction and creates an immense divide. I think the vaccine card agenda is sorely misguided. No-one should ever have to prove their vaccine status in order to be able to enter a restaurant or take a flight. As we now know Fauci is possibly being taken to court in the USA and the are other lawsuits being raised. To push this direction means humans could be forced to accept a way of life we don't want to. There are so many current 'technological advances' which are meant to make the world cleaner and healthier, but when you look at the TRUE science behind them and their true environmental impact, their promises of lowering carbon footprint and efficacy are far less promising and are often worse solutions than those polluting options traditionally used. I'd love to move in a clean, healthy direction where technology is used (gently) for good. But are we heading down a path of
Huxley's Brave New World meets Orwell's 1984 meets Minority Report. Technology should feel like a safety net, not an imposed way of life. I fear the balance that is greatly needed worldwide as well as within individual countries is not going to be met. There are grand visions that people think sound cool until they realise the path they take you down when it's already been implemented. Life inside China's surveillance state means you can be identified and approached anywhere by authorities. All transactions are on phones and track your every purchase, not just for advertising purposes, but for your location also and an analysis of you. Be careful what you begin to introduce because once it's enacted the direction will not be stopped.

There needs to be a government minister with overall responsibility for implementing the three important principles. That minister should be separate from the Home Secretary whose responsibilities for crime and security would undermine the concern for human rights safeguards as expressed in the three principles.
Under Trustworthiness, to the right to “opt out” should also be added a specific reference to an assumed right of privacy, concerning any personal information. So for example a recent proposal by the government to collect all health information from GPs of all their patients would need to be fully and publicly justified.

Love the 3 key principles which will be implemented! however there seems to be a lot of changes which will affect all people and as I see this as a long term plan! What clear strategies will be used to educate the intricate details of the processes to the public and also will this also need to be brought into schools to educate the youth and if so how?