14 March update: this was published a few days before The Guardian revealed that Biobank data has been lost several times and Biobank say it’s patient’s fault if they come to harm.]

Government is gearing up for a bunch of announcements about taking your medical record and doing what they want with them – there are many moving parts.

To inform future pieces, we’ve published a long piece on many of those moving parts (not all, because we keep some surprises as surprises).

HDRUK, Biobank, and Mr Streeting argue that privacy doesn’t matter, and they and their cronies should be able to do whatever they want with data without consequence.  They use that argument to break pandemic-only promises, then it’ll be imposing Palantir, and then taking away what rights you do have. Mr Streeting is implementing what he learnt from his political mentor, Mr Mandelson.

We’ll see about that – and perhaps this government will change course when it realises it has done something unwise. 

You can read the full document here.

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