Phil Booth co-ordinates medConfidential - campaigning for medical data privacy. For more on how the changes will affect your medical records, visit medConfidential’s ongoing ‘masterclass’ blog series.
If you live in England, all your encounters with your GP – information about your physical, mental and sexual health – could be ‘sold’ to third parties
As the new NHS app launches this week, huge questions remain about what happens to our private health data - now a key focus of Big Tech and US trade negotiators.
If you want to make sure your medical data isn’t shared with third parties for unknown purposes, you may need to take action now. Here’s why – and how.
The NHS is being treated as both a 'cash cow' and a 'data cow', a string of recent scandals suggest. And now there's another privacy-bashing tech bonanza on the way, as ID cards rise from the ashes of Brexit policy.
Phil Booth (London, NO2ID): At a conference in Manchester organised by the Information Commissioner twelve months ago, NO2ID raised a wry smile from delegates by handing out pairs of (blank)
Phil Booth (London, NO2ID): The mainstream media has finally woken up to the dangers of the government's proposed Communications Data database – the detail of which openDemocracy published back
Those who question the 'database state' are often accused of alarmism. But what if we were to report that a recent series of announcements show that the government
