Labour’s new data access law would allow the UK government to replicate an Elon Musk-style DOGE data-grab, experts and campaigners have warned. They believe the new law is “ripe for abuse” and could be weaponised by a future Reform UK administration to further its anti-climate, anti-asylum, anti-government agenda. The Data (Use and Access) Act, which […]
  • Denjin@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    They keep making these big deals with tech companies saying they’ll add more money to the economy despite these businesses like Google being nothing but extractive and pulling money out of the markets they operate in and putting it into the hands of the tech-bros while simultaneously eroding the basic freedoms and qualities of living in the UK.

    Google paid just £50M in tax last year on £1.8B an effective tax rate of 0.28%.

    Stop sucking the genitalia of big tech companies, they’re literally the worst.

  • casmael@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Are they stupid? Yes. Are they intentionally making bad decisions? Also probably yes.