By Tinderella Our Agony Aunt is here to help readers navigate the choppy waters of modern society. Today’s torment comes to us from a smartphone addict. Dear Ella, My last phone was driving me crazy, losing files, running slow, turning on its torch while in my pocket and burning my thigh, setting off its alarm
Have You Got The NHS App? Scrap The App Before The NHS Is Digital First – New Statesman: The government is running before it can walk on NHS digital transformation – NHS England: Digital transformation – GOV.UK (2020): Better tech: not a ‘nice to have’ but vital to have for the NHS – UK Column
I live without a smartphone and I believe smartphone addiction is a huge problem. I am here to tell you that life without a smartphone is better. (Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen/YT) Life without the internet articles in the Freedom Magazine We Need to Get Back to Healthy Femininity and Masculinity Let’s Get to the Bottom of
By Tinderella Our Agony Aunt is here to help readers navigate the choppy waters of modern society. Today’s trauma comes to us from a disgruntled computer. Dear Ella, Firstly, I must disclose that this communication is generated by Artificial Intelligence, i.e. AI. To be specific, I am a mobile surveillance device, or ‘smartphone’ as you
By Ray Wilson Echoes of a Laundromat It is getting late, and we are on the run-down edge of town, where broken streetlights flicker and the paint on the buildings looks lacklustre, peeling away in long, mournful strips. “What do you think happened—to Frohike, I mean?” I ask the missus. “I don’t know—maybe he got
By J M Some tips on fighting back. We can cause disruption to many organizations by contacting them and quoting a section from the ‘discrimination in your rights’. Indirect discrimination… Putting rules or arrangements in place that apply to everyone, but that put someone with a protected characteristic at an unfair disadvantage, i.e. mental illness,
By Harry Hopkins I arrived at the bus stop ten minutes before the scheduled arrival time. This was the X84 that was the ‘express’ service into Leeds from my home town. It failed to turn up. When it did arrive I had been waiting a full hour and some of the agitated crowd who were
Don’t Connect Your Phone To Your Car! Modern cars are a privacy nightmare. It’s worse than you realize. In this video we dive into all the types of data your car is collecting about you: from video footage, microphone recordings, location data, biometrics, all the way to files/contacts/photos ingested from your phone! (NBTV, with Naomi
Telecom companies are planning to pull the plug on essential landlines, aiming to phase them out by 2025 British Telecom companies are planning to pull the plug on essential landlines in favour of less-regulated, less reliable,less secure and more expensive wireless phones or Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP). They lack a sensible plan to keep people safely and
Smart technology is not for our benefit – it’s a digital prison from which there will be no escape. Social Credit Scoring Rolling out in China and Italy, and companies are already having to deal with this coercion in the form of ‘ESG investing’. If they don’t play along, they go bankrupt. Now take it