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Deozaan:

Carol Haynes:
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-Deozaan (October 14, 2013, 01:52 AM)
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 :Thmbsup:

The UK government are happily selling NHS medical data to companies now and the system is opt out.

It is all supposed to be anonymous but IIRC postcodes are included so that regional discrimination of data can be generated. It wouldn't take genius to work out form medical and postcode data who you are talking about (my postcode only covers 8 properties and 5 of them a holiday lets with no registered patients!)

So much for the UK Data Protection Act!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16026827
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/phil-booth/your-medical-data-on-sale-for-pound

Renegade:
Big medico-data-whoredom gets worse.

That health insurance premium hike you had? Could have been because your grocery store loyalty card is used to record what you purchase, then sold to the insurance companies so they can figure out who eats more junk food, etc.

I'm sure it's worse than just that. The last few years have proved that it only ever gets worse.

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