Lat Flow test needed for Soton Boat show.

[Tranona]

Calm down Capn, this has nothing to do with you out there. You have no idea what I do outside of my posts on these forums, some of which are indeed complaining and some are informing others of the dangers around data privacy. Either way, better to be on the side of data privacy than siding with the government imposing on that privacy. I really can't work out what's in it for you for our privacy to be eroded, unless you're a friend of Borris and funding your endless holiday with kickbacks?

Might I suggest you actually go on the website, or pick up a pack from your local pharmacy, do the test and report the findings. Then come back and explain how you think your privacy ahs been eroded.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Are you saying the code on the test kit is registered to the person that the test kit is issued to?

I ask because I have to do a test to attend a club event. My daughter has a spare unused test kit issued by her school. What will happen if I take the test with that kit and try and register it? Does it ask me for my name? Or will the test result be logged agains my daughters name with no mechanism to alter it?

No you log it into your NHS account via NHS covid app. I cant thing the government could do any harm with the info, but they might be too churlish to congratulate you and others who are taking precautions

 

[Tranona]

Indeed. There is nothing on there that the government does not have already. My concern was rather the opposite in that there are no checks on validity of the applicant and the test result is self declared. The only link outside the test reporting system is via your NHS number to your GP, and even that is optional as not relevant, for example for Dom's visitors.

 

[lustyd]

I don't want you to "fight on my behalf" - and how are you fighting and what for? So I am not thankful that people who bury their heads in the sand are doing it for me.

I figure that having got this far in life I am quite capable of making up my own mind without any help from you.

Might I suggest you actually go on the website, or pick up a pack from your local pharmacy, do the test and report the findings. Then come back and explain how you think your privacy ahs been eroded.

Numerous examples are available. You're clearly not interested and you're also obviously past the age where you'll have issues so there's no point discussing it with you.

 

[lustyd]

No you log it into your NHS account via NHS covid app. I cant thing the government could do any harm with the info, but they might be too churlish to congratulate you and others who are taking precautions

Given that the NHS weren't granted access to the data by the third party private organisation collecting it for profit, no the government probably won't abuse it.

That said, there's nothing stopping that data being used to prevent anyone who ever tested positive from entering a premises. After all they were careless enough to get infected, so why take the risk? We could also start testing out other vaccines on the population at large, after all they can only complain if they refuse. It's scary how uninterested so many people are in these issues. Hopefully poppy sales will reduce accordingly this November.

 

[capnsensible]

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't after you. Joseph Heller.

As we are in the drift anyway, best you don't look at wiki leaks. It may cause head explosion. ?

In truth, some of the stuff is a bit scary. But it can't be put back in a bottle.

More kinda boaty, if one is seriously wanting to get out from under, go cruising on your yacht to far flung places using charts, not gps and chuck your phone over the side. Safe as. Well except when you want to go ashore. And buy stuff....

 

[Tranona]

Numerous examples are available. You're clearly not interested and you're also obviously past the age where you'll have issues so there's no point discussing it with you.

Answer the question instead of waffling on about something plucked out of the air. Of course I am interested. You said you would not engage with the testing to gain access to the show on the grounds that it is an invasion of your privacy. Then you claim that I (and by implication several others) do not understand - but you are fighting on our behalf. So, I ask you again what are you fighting for (or against) and how are you going about it?

As you seem to have no idea what is involved, how can anybody take anything you say seriously - indeed as this thread shows.

 

[Tranona]

Given that the NHS weren't granted access to the data by the third party private organisation collecting it for profit, no the government probably won't abuse it.

That said, there's nothing stopping that data being used to prevent anyone who ever tested positive from entering a premises. After all they were careless enough to get infected, so why take the risk? We could also start testing out other vaccines on the population at large, after all they can only complain if they refuse. It's scary how uninterested so many people are in these issues. Hopefully poppy sales will reduce accordingly this November.

Once again displaying your total ignorance of the process. Are you scared that if you actually log on you will discover that you do not have a clue?

 

[lustyd]

Once again displaying your total ignorance of the process. Are you scared that if you actually log on you will discover that you do not have a clue?

I’ve seen more of the system than you ever will and am quite familiar with the data collection, stewardship and storage as well as the negative uses to which it’s already been put.

 

[Tranona]

I’ve seen more of the system than you ever will and am quite familiar with the data collection, stewardship and storage as well as the negative uses to which it’s already been put.

So, if you are such an expert answer my question. What is it about the information you have to provide to use a lateral flow test and which bit of it do you not wish to disclose in case somebody uses it for other purposes? And BTW testing is NOT carried out by a third party as you claim, and while the data management may well be operated by a third party it is a self contained government website the actual test and reporting is done by the person being tested.

But of course you would not know this having seemingly never used it. What is the system that you claim to have seen that I have not.

You are grasping at straws to cover your ignorance.

 

[lustyd]

You're purposely misreading what I wrote, and you're completely uninterested in the real answers so I'll leave you there, blissful in your ignorance.

 

[Quackers]

I’ve seen more of the system than you ever will and am quite familiar with the data collection, stewardship and storage as well as the negative uses to which it’s already been put.

Of course you are love, which is why you won't tell us about it. All a bit selfish keeping the details to yourself if it's so important to everyone isn't it?

 

[Laysula]

Hopefully poppy sales will reduce accordingly this November.

??????????????

 

[matt1]

Just don’t anybody kid themselves that all those going to the show will have tested negative. As you can see with the similar thread on PBO there are suggestions that a simple solution is to order the lateral flow online, unwrap it when it arrives, discard it after scanning the QR code but nevertheless upload your result as negative. You have to wonder at some people….

 

[john_morris_uk]

Just don’t anybody kid themselves that all those going to the show will have tested negative. As you can see with the similar thread on PBO there are suggestions that a simple solution is to order the lateral flow online, unwrap it when it arrives, discard it after scanning the QR code but nevertheless upload your result as negative. You have to wonder at some people….

That’s always a possibility. However the majority of people in the uk are honest and don’t sink to those levels of duplicity.

 

[Zing]

Free.

Maybe free for the self done Soton test, which anyone can falsify. Not free if returning from your hols on the amber list. You need a supervised lab test. £55 ish.

 

[lustyd]

Of course you are love, which is why you won't tell us about it. All a bit selfish keeping the details to yourself if it's so important to everyone isn't it?

Thanks for your valuable input, I'd prefer to keep my job though so won't be sharing confidential information with you on this occasion.

 

[lustyd]

??????????????

What is currently happening in the UK is a massive slap in the face to the servicemen and women who have fought for us. Wearing a poppy while actively promoting the loss of that freedom is extremely bad taste so hopefully those in favour of such things will refrain from wearing them.

 

[dom]

What is currently happening in the UK is a massive slap in the face to the servicemen and women who have fought for us. Wearing a poppy while actively promoting the loss of that freedom is extremely bad taste so hopefully those in favour of such things will refrain from wearing them.

Time to stop lusty.

It is bordering on offensive to suggest we no longer remember the fallen in response to some imaginary battle you are fighting.

 

[Quackers]

Thanks for your valuable input, I'd prefer to keep my job though so won't be sharing confidential information with you on this occasion.

So you are making it up then?

For someone who purports to be aware of and concerned about data exploitation you disclose an awful lot of information about yourself on this open internet forum.