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TBH keeping it part of the BBC helps with trust as it’s not part of the Government but at arms length run by a much loved organisation that has faults and isn’t perfect…. Much indirectly by fiscal squeeze and the constant attacks on them by the former Tory Government.
FCDO can still pay for it though.
Much in the same way I have far-far more faith in the xclwnt content from USA’s PBS/NPR than Voice of America etc.
Calling does us highlight congestion elsewhere as the site and services you consume.
You may have a Ferrari, but can’t drive past a crawl in London, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Oxford or NYC, Paris, Tokyo etc
Where you do find an open road, you will probably break a rim in a pot-hole … no doubt caused by CityFibre’s shoddy wildcat roadworks burying the cable within 1 micron of minimum regulated depth in unducted soil/hardcore under the tarmac/pavement:
… and India. See IBM. Don’t forget Service Economy too.
(and Mexico, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Turkey, Ireland, Thailand, Taiwan, … with UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, Gaza, Sudan and Yemen soon to follow).
Corporate America (and Europe/Canada) fucked the US, nit China/Taiwan. They were just (gleefully) open for business. See Tim Cook/Apple and the $Tn dollar I-stuff hi-Tech manufacturing ecosystem they built over 30 years. By choice.
Using the £500m to invest in Tax Officers to clear the backlog and increase the tax take from tax dodgers will pay for itself.
Outsourcing to shysters like this will make no difference - probably make it worse actually.
If it will be wafer thin, and as cheap as possible staff with little understanding and no authority to do anything … once you get past the Chat/AI.
CBRE bought BT Property Services about 5 years or so after in was in-sourced/acquired when Monterey as driving down costs, increasing accountability, economies of scale and selling on to other companies. etc. Similar with the the expansion of BT Fleet.
Left arm doesn’t know what the right is doing.
Well you can improve the efficient and output by removing the pre-AI Gabage In, Garbage out.
I shudder to think that Grok drinks from the Xitter collective consciousness or Llama from Facebook.
Being able to discount the 99% bollocks from being processed must surely be a huge win.
AI - like V’ger - needs all that is knowable (minus Facebook, Xitter, LinkedIn, 75% YouTube, Fox News/GB News, Bravo TV etc ….
As a customer had just I weasel e-mail of lawyer talk so far …. Many many more about Sienna Millers new collection however:
“Dear XXx
I’m Jayne Wall, and I look after Customer Service here at M&S. I am sure that you will have seen in the news that we have been dealing with a cyber incident and I wanted to write to you about what this means for you.
What has happened?
To proactively manage the incident, we immediately took steps to protect our systems and engaged leading cyber security experts. We also reported the incident to relevant government authorities and law enforcement, who we continue to work closely with.
Unfortunately, the nature of the incident means that some personal customer data has been taken, but there is no evidence that it has been shared. The personal data could include contact details, date of birth and online order history. However, importantly, the data does not include useable card or payment details, and it also does not include any account passwords. For more detail, see our FAQs.
How does this affect me and what should I do?
You do not need to take any action, but you might receive emails, calls or texts claiming to be from M&S when they are not, so do be cautious. Remember that we will never contact you and ask you to provide us with personal account information, like usernames, and we will never ask you to give us your password.
For more information, FAQs and hints and tips on how to stay safe online visit corporate.marksandspencer.com/cyber-update
To give you extra peace of mind, next time you visit or login to your M&S.com account on our website or app, you will also be prompted to reset your password.
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused to you and all of our customers.
Thank you so much for shopping with us and for your support, we never take it for granted.
Jayne's signature
Jayne Wall
Operations Director
For more information about how we use data, please see our Data Protection Policy on the M&S website.
Marks and Spencer plc. Registered office: 35 North Wharf Road, London, W2 1NW, United Kingdom. Registered number: 214436 (England and Wales). © Marks & Spencer. All rights reserved”
EU/UK anyway …
The 7 main principles of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) are: Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency; **Purpose Limitation**; **Data Minimisation**; Accuracy; **Storage Limitation**; **Integrity** and **Confidentiality** (security); and Accountability.
Applicable ones violated **’d.
It’s garbage.
The 8 Pledges should not even be a thing. They should already either be solved, or be scheduled to complete by say the end of the year.
If nothing else it’s a slam dunk GDPR concern.. and violation for the ones exposed.
All - not most - clinical systems should be by default protected by staff ID cards that are chipped as the 2FA.
However as a Covid vaccinator some NHS trusts - UHCB (Birmingham) as the example in violation of their own HR Policies and Employment contracts were too stingy to even provide Staff ID Cards to Bank staff regardless of them being chipped or not.
Making 8 Pledges on a Charter means nothing.
Why the 8 items are niot already implemented is the problem and a plan to tackle them by ending 2025.
The squeeze on NHS funding and attacking non-frontline staff isn’t helping either. Frontline staff can only do what they do with firm foundations under them.
That’s owned by the Health department’s of all of the Devolved Nations and Westminster DoH and Treasury.
Although there was still much to do… the NHS wasn’t broken @ May 2010.
That’s exactly why there are purpose limitations. The useless ICO need to do some proper pain. I’m sure M&S and Coop will join British Airways in getting pissy little fine when all is done.Reputational damage seems to matter little these days too either.
The 7 principles of the GDPR are:
Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency
Purpose limitation
Data minimization
Accuracy
Storage limitations
Integrity and confidentiality
Accountability
Manufacturing no, but plate spinning of the global supply chain, component design and specifications yes.
What they (a things making automaton) earn in a month in Foxconn/Tata iPhone plants is less than a US worker gets weekly in a blue tabard pushing a Walmart Curbside picking cart gets paid…. Before you look at costs of living.
iPhones, MacBooks, AirPods, iPads, Apple Tags, Apple Watches are not coming home to MAGA
Esp. The train fare from India and The Philippines of their ‘overseas support staff’ to attend an event.
‘Overseas Contractors and support staff’ … reeks of Offshoring/outsourcing of support to cut costs … and they got screwed.
Still offering credit where due ….more transparency than M&S, Harrods and Coop combined.
… so you will obviously not support increasing the US Debt ceiling by $4tn to help fund further tax cuts for the already wealthy and above.
You know it makes sense. More sense that analogising Federal Government to the (pretty good) Chernobyl TV show… which would be subject to 100% tariffs now as largely made in Lithuania and The Ukraine.
Sigh ….
- The elected Executive issues direction of travel
- The Legislative branch consents to and enacts the agreement/funding into law of the above by the consent of the elected representative democracy members
- The (appointed and confirmed by both of the above) judiciary members ensure those laws - as written and sometimes interpreted - are being followed.(why well crafted legislation is always good).
It’s Meerkat “Simple’s”
Or perhaps ones in limbo on the cesspit that is LinkedIn while on furlough…. or latter remote work absolute guarantees being reneged on. Weasel corporate behaviour like saying remote is absolutely guaranteed whilst squirming on contract simple variation requests to reflect that. Personally even after my Office was closed down it was still my contractual place of my regular work.
The remote IP v’s LinkedIn usage seems a fairly tenuous data set for this speculation. Esp. With VPN’s and many IT Dept’s unable/unwilling to do split tunnelling.
Some global commonality and liaison with other nations - many with the same issues - like UK NATS - would be suggested. Does anyone have an ATC System that is not a pile of legacy shit ?.
As a huge amount of US Transatlantic flights hug Canada and traverse the Labrador Sea common purpose with Carney the Canuk should be a no-brainer.
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