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UK: NHS shared patient data with private companies Palantir, Deloitte, KPMG, McKinsey and PwC (www.opendemocracy.net)

submitted 2 years ago by ailiphilia@feddit.it to c/technology

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NHS England says it “only shares de-identified data with organisations". But privacy experts have criticised this position "given the richness of the data and the relative ease by which re-identification could occur." The datastore also contains “workforce analytics” data and something called “strike analysis”, which NHS England said was created “in anticipation of industrial action” but had never been used in practice.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even if proper legislation existed I don't think we could trust big players, private or public, with our personal data.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

This is why we need a trustless system.

[–] nickb333 1 points 2 years ago

Don't forget Capita suffered a recent cyber attack .