This is the biggest data grab in NHS history.
It involves the most private & intimate details of a person’s life.
It’s being rushed through on the sly, without transparency or dialogue.
Worst of all - unless you opt out, your medical data’s harvested. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It involves the most private & intimate details of a person’s life.
It’s being rushed through on the sly, without transparency or dialogue.
Worst of all - unless you opt out, your medical data’s harvested. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
To those who (understandably) see the huge potential health benefits of mining a vast NHS dataset - yes, absolutely, this could do enormous good. But you simply cannot use individual medical data without informed consent. This is a rushed, sneaky, non-transparent data grab.
Of course we’re meant to be reassured by @NHSX that all data will be anonymised. But data breaches have occurred before, notably in 2014. And if it’s all so benign, why the rush, why the secrecy, why the lack of transparency? Harvesting health records on the sly is wrong.
For those asking, this applies specifically to England. Details here: theguardian.com/society/2021/m…
Details of how to opt out here:
https://twitter.com/einsteinsattic/status/1398029768126251011
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