Secretive COVID contracts show how big data firms are taking over our healthcare. What are they – and the British government – hoping to get out of it?
30 years ago the Berlin Wall fell, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was born. But British children’s privacy rights are now being breached at a scale few parents are aware of.
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.
Increasingly commercialised NHS data collection is being inappropriately used in ways that could jeopardise hospitals' futures. Is it any wonder staff might feel under pressure to skew the stats?
Government amendments on care.data have done little to reassure critics of the project - could an alternative amendment still buy some time to sort out the mess?
As more revelations emerge about the sale of our hospital data to the insurance industry, misleading claims that a massive expansion in data collection is totally safe, are failing to convince.
Mistrust of care.data is not surprising, given the corporate interests involved - but simply opting out will make it even harder to monitor the impact of privatisation on Britain's health.
NHS England has still not done enough to inform patients of the privacy-busting implications of the new 'care.data' scheme, former home secretary David Davies tells openDemocracy.
Labour's 'big idea' on health is to merge it with social care and maybe even benefits. It calls it 'whole person care'. But has it thought through the implications?
