UK GDPR after Brexit.

[JayCeeDee]

This seems to be a right shambles and when you try to look, HERE, all the info seems to be company/industry based.

I was looking more from a personal data point of view, after my son told me that the NHS is looking to sell off our personal medical data unless people opt out.

I realise that it’s the Express, but details HERE, apparently the June 23rd date has been extended – not sure till when – but where the article states that ‘recipients will be expected to cover the costs….’ leads me to think that if money could be made, they’ll sell it off to whoever will stump up the cash sometime in the future, when no-one’s looking.

NHS page HERE.

GP letter to Opt Out HERE.

[Ed P]

Since Thatcher started the sell off of UK National Assets all subsequent Governments have joined in. I have no problem with our SELLING data, the problem is that it is relatively trivial to de-anonymise it, as your data is linked with your MSOA area (~7000 people), and according to a recent Private Eye article it would be relatively trivial to use Facebook and other data sets to link your personal data with your name.

A report by MPs states that this linking should become a criminal offence. However I see no sign of this on the statute book.While I’m fairly relaxed with my data becoming public I can see that those with genetic or other inheritable problems would be extremely worried if such data got into the grubby paws of insurance companies etc. If this worries you, I suggest that you write to your MP demanding that CEOs, and CFOs be made criminally liable for any attempts to link individuals to their anonymous records,

Write to your MP if this worries you.

[Ed P]

Btw this is the sort of data a record holds:

MSOA number, NHS number, date of birth, gender, ethnicity. Plus of course all your intimate medical history.

As MSOA data is limited to 7000 people, the dob info alone pretty much cuts it down to about twenty people, so I can see why Private Eye was worried.

[Ed P]

There is a well informed info thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7146630

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