“the govt learned its lesson [from care.data]. Which is to say that 8 years on it’s doing same thing, only in less time, without public awareness campaign, with trickier opt-out, & in the middle of a global pandemic. Have you, at some level, got to admire the work?”
https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1401066735617331203
“difficult to summon anything other than deep suspicion, born of bitter experience, about fact that @NHSDigital has barely informed GPs, waiting till last minute to order them to submit records of every patient, where they’ll become permanent & irreversible part of new database”
“According to the very much un-promoted page on the NHS website, the NHS will be able to unlock the pseudonymisation codes ‘in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason’.”
“Should you feel you’d like to opt out, if only to buy time and transparency, here’s where to go [link]. If there’s nothing for us to worry our pretty little heads about, perhaps the government would at least do us the courtesy of openly explaining why.”
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