A good time to invest in companies selling aluminium foil, strong magnets
and underground bunkers?
Or ... a good time to make an effort to be informed in depth then speak
assertively to one's MP?
Sandra
-----Original Message-----
From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Crawshaw
Sent: 08 February 2014 21:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: GP self-check-in systems and eg Care.Data opting out.
But how will the police check on you?
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/06/police-backdoor-access-nhs-he
alth-records
SC
On 9 February 2014 08:44, Sandra Pickering <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I have written to my GP practice to instruct him/her (I have no idea who
my GP is) to keep my data strictly confidential, not release it and to
inform me if/when anyone (DrugCo, Tesco, Virgin, G4S, Serco ... whoever is
soon to be employing all you GPs) wants my data. I shall name the minimum
price of my data then they can bid. It's pretty worthless data but they'll
need to pay me at least £1m for it.
>
> That's rational and fair. Anyone who thinks otherwise should have made
> an effort to ensure that the current government didn't get in or, when
> it did, made an effort to stop the privatization of the NHS. (Not a
> party political point btw - the opposition offers nothing better.)
>
> All that is needed for evil to win is for decent women and men to sit on
their buttocks and do nothing.
>
> Sandra
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Leuty
> Sent: 08 February 2014 20:59
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: GP self-check-in systems and eg Care.Data opting out.
>
> On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 20:30 +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>> declaring they did not wish to have their records uploaded to the
>> central server or sold-on from there
>
> I find myself in a quandary over this issue. Clare Gerada writes quite
forcefully in today's Times saying that it is our moral duty not to opt out.
>
> As a GP of Very Little Brain I think of two reasons why one might want to
opt-out.
>
> 1. Anonymity may be broken either by (a) deduction from several pieces of
data, (b) incompetence (data loss, cracking attack), or (c) deliberate
release to authorised people (Mr Policeman Plod, etc).
>
> 2. The idea of intimate information about oneself being sold commercially
is abhorrent.
>
> Those of us who use Facebook or Google products evidently see no problem
with no. 2, but Aunty Flo may feel differently. Although Aunty Flo, with her
keen idea of duty, might sympathise with Clare Gerada's view.
>
> So to my mind the main problem is number 1. Should I be terribly worried
about accidental (or deliberate) disclosure, or just accept that there is no
longer any such thing as privacy and get over it? And are there other issues
that I have simplistically ignored?
>
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