This is a follow-on article from the first Legislation Watch article, covering the Fraud Error and Recovery Bill, which is currently going through the parliamentary process.
I'd have thought if the purpose was to reduce welfare fraud, someone would have studied the problem and proposed a series of different options each with their cost-benefit analysis. In which case where is the report?
And the best they can do is suggest a way they hope leads to a possible 1.4% reduction gross, after constructing an AI system trampling over the privacy of the entire population, a new Act of Parliament, and consigning legal due process to the bin?
Yeah, its shit, isn't it? All of it. I'm glad that I don't need to claim benefits, and I am trying to get the child benefit payments stopped for my youngest (who is sixteen) as I have to pay it all back anyway come my tax return.
Red or Blue flavour government, maybe with a dash of Nationalism on the side...it's all the same. We are just one big problem to solve - its not cooperative or collaborative government - its 'Us' and 'Them'. 'Us' versus 'Them'. And it has always been thus.
I've stopped engaging with so called 'Democracy' in the UK. It's better to assume that whoever 'gets in' will sooner of later take a shit on you. But hey, at least you had your say, right?
The hidden agenda is justifying the government having eyes into people’s bank accounts as a precursor for the digital panopticon. Expect mission creep as this is the thin edge of the wedge…
Brilliant work, thank you.
I'd have thought if the purpose was to reduce welfare fraud, someone would have studied the problem and proposed a series of different options each with their cost-benefit analysis. In which case where is the report?
And the best they can do is suggest a way they hope leads to a possible 1.4% reduction gross, after constructing an AI system trampling over the privacy of the entire population, a new Act of Parliament, and consigning legal due process to the bin?
Thank you, Clare.
Yeah, its shit, isn't it? All of it. I'm glad that I don't need to claim benefits, and I am trying to get the child benefit payments stopped for my youngest (who is sixteen) as I have to pay it all back anyway come my tax return.
Red or Blue flavour government, maybe with a dash of Nationalism on the side...it's all the same. We are just one big problem to solve - its not cooperative or collaborative government - its 'Us' and 'Them'. 'Us' versus 'Them'. And it has always been thus.
I've stopped engaging with so called 'Democracy' in the UK. It's better to assume that whoever 'gets in' will sooner of later take a shit on you. But hey, at least you had your say, right?
The hidden agenda is justifying the government having eyes into people’s bank accounts as a precursor for the digital panopticon. Expect mission creep as this is the thin edge of the wedge…