Patients won’t be able to opt out of sharing health records – despite MP warning that anonymising data is ‘impossible’
The Covid inquiry has heard how a low-tech data operation left Downing Street scrambling as lockdown was announced
More than 1,000 people – including Elton John and Nadiya Hussain – had home addresses shared by UK government, leading to safety concerns
Exclusive: Lawyers acting for openDemocracy have written to health secretary Sajid Javid demanding transparency over database originally run by Palantir
Boris Johnson looks set on using our health data as a bargaining chip to keep his Brexit/US trade dream alive – but what does that mean for us?
NHS data-sharing scheme put on hold ‘indefinitely’ after public backlash to privacy concerns raised by openDemocracy
We address openDemocracy readers’ biggest concerns about the upcoming data grab – including what opting out means, and how to do it
