Expert predicts government NHS data-sharing plans spell end for patient privacy

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Plans mean 'the end of medical privacy' and further encroachment by the 'database state', claims security expert

Security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the government's latest plans to make NHS medical records all-electronic, shared not just throughout the NHS, but with care homes and social ser...

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