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Paranoia

July 7, 2016 Longrider 9

Paranoia isn’t paranoia if they really are out to  get you.  And concerns about privacy are not and  never have been paranoia. But never mind, […]

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Understatement, Much?

April 18, 2014 Longrider 2

Things have been quiet around here this past week. Real life and all that… Anyway, this caught my eye. The Care.Data roll-out was mishandled, apparently. […]

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Care.Data Update

March 21, 2014 Longrider 0

Chris Skidmore has replied in writing to my concerns about the opt-out not really being an opt-out and referred me to the article on the […]

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I’m Not A Scaremonger

March 1, 2014 Longrider 3

After all… The privacy drive comes after The Telegraph disclosed this week that 13 years of hospital data – covering 47million patients – was sold […]

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Care.Data Delayed

February 19, 2014 Longrider 2

It looks as if the backlash to care.data has had an effect. The start of a new NHS data-sharing scheme in England involving medical records […]

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There’s a Surprise…

February 17, 2014 Longrider 10

Care.Data is a danger to patients’ records. But the risk assessment by NHS England, the body behind the scheme, warns that patients could be “re-identified” […]

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More on Care Data

February 1, 2014 Longrider 2

Further to the revelation that I am paranoid, Jonathan Freedland wades in on the matter of care.data – which I discussed a while back. Incidentally, I […]