Andy Hall

Video Producer 🎬 Media Trainer 🎥 Creative marketing films with animation, motion graphics & VFX 🚀Sci-fi 🎸 Muso 🌱Nature

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

AT 93 BETTY BROWN IS STILL FIGHTING

Betty Brown just turned 93 and picked up an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle. Lovely photo. Lovely medal on a lovely jacket. What she still does not have, six months after settling her claim, is a single penny of the compensation she was promised.

Betty and her late husband Oswall ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham from 1985 to 2003. The Horizon accounting system built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk told them money was missing from their branch. It was not missing. It was never missing.

They spent around 100,000 pounds of their own savings covering shortfalls that did not exist, because that is apparently the correct response when a computer accuses you and nobody in charge believes the human standing in front of it.

She is thought to be the oldest surviving victim of the Horizon scandal. She was one of the original 555 claimants who backed Alan Bates in the group legal action against the Post Office @PostOffice.

She reached a settlement through the government redress scheme at the end of last year. At her OBE investiture in June she said she still had not received a penny.

Meanwhile Fujitsu, the company whose faulty software caused this entire catastrophe, has been criticised by a committee of MPs for contributing nothing financially toward the redress bill, which is running toward 2 billion pounds.

The company that broke the till keeps its money. The 93 year old it falsely accused of stealing from that till gets a medal instead of a bank transfer.

She dedicated her OBE to the sub-postmasters who never lived to see this day. She has said before that at least 13 people are believed to have taken their own lives because of what Horizon did to them. She said she wears the honour for them because she still feels everything they felt.

She also had a message for the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer, asking him directly to sort this out as quickly as he can. That is a simple sentence. It appears to be an extremely difficult instruction to follow.

Britain does love turning its victims into heroes once the damage is done and the bill has gone unpaid long enough to be embarrassing.

Medals are cheap. Redress schemes, it turns out, are somehow still cheaper for the people who actually owe the money.

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

@BigBrotherWatch £650k on advertising a hackers honeypot in a cost of living crisis 🙄

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

I saw 2 examples of LTNS hampering essential services this week. Do these schemes do more harm than good? #LTN #LowTrafficNetwork #LowTrafficSchemes

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Risk of abuse - by present and future governments, such as threatening to or withholding essential services from law-abiding people who do not comply with their ideas of conformity.

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

I completed this short 'consultation' on Digital ID. It closes at 12:30pm today. Here's why I oppose it... #DigitalID #NoToDigitalID #OneLogin #No2DigitalID https://t.co/sVbyKzPlbl

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Erosion of democracy and trust in government - there was no democratic mandate and this government said it had 'no plans' to introduce it.

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Huge spiralling cost - public finances cannot afford the burden of another 'white elephant' vanity project like 'Test & Trace'
https://t.co/hiY4cgRquY ).

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Mission creep - where a “voluntary” system could be made practically or intentionally mandatory pushing people into using technology systems, devices and subscriptions they may not find agreeable or affordable.

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Security risk - A national database containing large amounts of personal data is a 'honey-pot' to cyber-criminals, terrorists and hostile foreign powers. It cannot be completely protected (UK government/departments have a terrible track record with IT projects and data security)

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

The problem with digital ID👇 When the tech fails thats it - no discussion. What if access was denied to essential services during a time-critical situation or emergency? #No2DigitalID #DigitalID #NoToDigitalID

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🚨News: Politicians have just voted away your online privacy & freedoms

Social media will be restricted for under-16s, the Government confirms.

This means that every one of us in the UK could soon need to submit to intrusive digital ID checks to access the internet fully.

This is a huge step back for free expression in Britain.

Worse still, the Government wants to impose this ban while an active consultation is still in progress.

Around the world, similar restrictions have failed to keep children safe. It is clear - a social media ban is not about children's wellbeing but a trojan horse for more surveillance and censorship.

[No to Digital ID @NoToDigitalID]

🚨 Across the world, Australia, Europe and the UK people have decried censorship yet, it’s still coming.

Let’s make this a global tweet.

We will NOT comply.

Just tap 🔁.

Let’s see how far this can go.

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Malpais de Güimar hike

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Texture, colour and sunlight

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

🚨 Apple’s new iPhone update is restricting internet freedom in the UK.

I’ve written to @apple to call for an urgent U-turn.

I explain the 8 key issues - affecting 35 mil of us in the UK! - in this short blog.

This is so important. Please read & share⬇️
https://t.co/F57yK5uMwR

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

Teide, very Teide

[Together @Togetherdec]

DIGITAL ID:

Pls sign & share

Scrap the Government’s Digital ID Project 👇
https://t.co/qJtu38dTAJ

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

World Health Organisation Rots From the Head

Former terrorist Tedros Ghebreyesus will not fire 83 WHO staff engaged in abuse - rape and forced abortions, one victim 13, claiming rape and forced abortion don’t violate WHO’s policies because the victims were not receiving WHO aid.

[Andy Hall @andyhalltv]

@BBCNews @Apple so you are Big Brother now? Ironic considering your "1984" TV commercial and your public defence of customer privacy until now.