# 2020-09-17



## Read: [UK awards border contract to firm criticised over role in US deportations](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/17/uk-awards-border-contract-to-firm-criticised-over-role-in-us-deportations)

> The government has awarded oversight of the UK’s post-[[Brexit]] border and customs data to [[Palantir]], an American tech firm notorious for assisting the Trump administration’s drive to deport migrants from the US.

This is awful.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/17/uk-awards-border-contract-to-firm-criticised-over-role-in-us-deportations


## Happy birthday repair.eu

The EU [[right to repair]] campaign has been going for a year, campaigning for:

-   Products repairable by design
-   Access to spare parts and repair info for everyone
-   A EU wide repairability score
    
    https://repair.eu/news/where-does-right-to-repair-go-next-in-europe/

\#RightToRepair


## Listened: [Revolutionary Left Radio: The Science of Covid-19: Immunobiology, Virology, and Pandemic Politics](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/covid19)

This is a great episode of [[Rev Left]] on some of the science behind SARS-CoV-2 and [[COVID-19]].

With a bonus tidbit that the CIA was responsible for an uptick in Polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/covid19