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Price of medical data

vendredi 4 juin 2021 à 02:00

*Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data.*

The data would be "anonymized", but we know that it is easy to identify most of the "anonymized" individuals given several data about each one.

The NHS has no inherent need to sell anyone access to data about its patients. The illusion of a need comes from the Tory policy of starving the NHS of funds, since 2019, which I believe is intended to lead to privatizing the NHS and thus effectively destroying it.

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Tories now plan to include this in a business-supremacy treaty with the US, so that future UK governments would have their hands tied.