Dati medici di mezzo milione di cittadini britannici messi in vendita sul sito cinese, dice il governo

https://news.sky.com/story/medical-data-of-half-a-million-britons-listed-for-sale-on-chinese-website-government-says-13535387

di bendubberley_

34 commenti

  1. Sir_Henry_Deadman on

    If I buy it will I find out when my appointment is?

  2. aleopardstail on

    its ok though the digital ID thing will never have this happen…

    honest

  3. ByteSizedGenius on

    > Professor Sir Rory Collins, chief executive and principal investigator of UK Biobank, said it took the protection of participant data “extremely seriously” and had tightened security.

    >”Last week, we found that de-identified participant data made available to researchers at three academic institutions were listed for sale on a consumer website in China, owned by Alibaba,” he said.

    People should be banned from saying things like they take data protection “extremely seriously” when they’re giving the data to Chinese academic institutions.

  4. PM_THE_REAPER on

    Maybe they’ll figure out why I get random shocks in my limbs and let me know.

  5. CambodianJerk on

    >Biobank said “all the data are de-identified; they do not contain any personally identifying information (such as names, addresses, dates of birth, and NHS numbers).”

    Also

    >data set…measures from biological samples were included.

    So they don’t know my name but they can grow a new version of me in a lab because they have my biologics. Phew, for a moment I thought it was something that would concern me.

  6. PackageOk4947 on

    And the government wants me to give my face when I’m cranking it?

  7. Animala144 on

    Not sure what some Chinese person is going to do with my eczema diagnosis

  8. Kaleidorinth on

    And they want us to trust them to keep hold of digital ID

  9. drewbles82 on

    and they wonder why I refuse to do age verification with handing details to a 3rd party company…esp on Xbox when my actual account is 21yrs old, not enough to prove my age

  10. ArtymisHikari on

    Then politicians wonder why many of us don’t want this digital ID they keep trying to push. A security nightmare waiting to happen.

  11. PurchaseDry9350 on

    I was just about to sign a consent form for ‘Our Future Health’. Maybe I should wait for further details about this to come out.

  12. plawwell on

    Only half a million? What about the rest or was this just the sample.txt file they looked at?

  13. Crypto_gambler952 on

    I can’t wait for Social Credit Digital ID so I can be sold in totality!

  14. dantheman200022 on

    All they would garner from mine that I have a knackered back and that I need my head testing.

  15. ash_ninetyone on

    Medical data sharing should be opt in, not opt out.

    Patient records are going online (well… in secure systems online), and there needs to be data sharing between trusts within the UK for valid purposes, like if someone moves, or if you’re visiting/on holiday and have a medical episode, having a hospital access all your record instantly from another trust speeds up chart reviews for diagnoses and treatment, etc.

    But having third party access, especially with the concern over Palantir lately as well, should be opt-in if it isn’t already. Clinical trials do exist ofc as well, but quite how and how much ended up there should land with a hefty fine from the ICO.

    Those fines don’t even result in compensation for the people whose records were breached. Be at least something if you got something for your stuff.

  16. Fit_Ocelot8072 on

    Funny how the Chinese started putting limits on their domestic surveillance exactly because they figured that these huge datasets are an enormous liability due to hacking and leaks.

  17. Necessary-Product361 on

    We can’t be letting the Chinese have our medical info, Wes Streeting has promised it all to Palantir!

  18. SignificantLegs on

    Every year there is a globally spectacular privacy leak from the UK government and every year they want a new spy database

    Facial recognition-OSA-Afghan collaborators leaked to the Taliban and covered up….

  19. hairlikebrianmay on

    Not arsed anymore, they already have all my details from a previous data breach.

  20. mediumAI1701 on

    If they have my medical data, can I visit China for an appointment? Would love to do something about this back pain.

  21. SirCheeseMuncher on

    I thought this just said that there was half a million PEOPLE on sale lol

  22. Crowdfunder101 on

    Might be a nice little excuse for Palantir to double down on their NHS stranglehold

  23. mantequilla69420 on

    Oh cool, I used that datset for my undergraduate dissertation project.

    It was literally passed around on memory sticks, im surprised it’s taken this long to be exposed – but it is very well anonymised, they calculate something called K-Anonymity and that dataset is virtually impossible to identify someone from

  24. We all knew this was going to happen ever since NHS started selling out to private companies

  25. MrTopping92 on

    This’ll be used as an excuse to deepen ties to palantir.

  26. idreaminGIFs on

    Great. Now I’m going to get spam emails to sell me powdered seahorse dicks to fix my back pain

  27. wildeaboutoscar on

    I have given my data to the Biobank as part of a longitudinal study. Given the data was anonymised, I’m not overly concerned. The data is used and aggregated for research purposes, you can’t do a great deal of damage with it.

    Obviously it’s not a good look though and generally any data breach like this should be treated seriously.

  28. noIdealOnlyAllah on

    It’ll be used for organ donation, or someones AI in making a British hospital video game

  29. Mad_Mark90 on

    I wonder if my ADHD medication is cheaper from Temu or the high street…

  30. That sounds about the same size as a private medical insurance company

  31. claire8635 on

    If the Chinese people let me know the results of my biopsy that would be divine

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