Dominic Cummings

[Paralytic]

He's not very professional with all this and

Doubt he'll get another gig if he goes off about his clients afterward or is he aiming for a new career as a celebrity

My prediction: He'll be on that show in the jungle and the two geordie kids within the next few years. He'll probably get through to the later stages as people vote for him for the comedy value. He'll then disappear from the public eye until 10 years time when there will be some leak about naughty something he did during the Covid year(s) (non-squirrel related, but similar).

[vetran]

It won’t be aggregated - FTFA:

”Data that directly identifies patients will be replaced with unique codes in the new data set, but the NHS will hold the keys to unlock the codes “in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason”, according to its website.”

Medical histories pretty unique - should be easy to identify when ransomware hackers leak that data

”Patients have until June 23 to opt out by filling in a form and taking it to their GP before their historical records will become a permanent and irreversible part of the new data set” - totally against GDPR

It’s fooking full medical histories FFS.

What’s next - store all confessions in Vatican for analysis?

So I will find your record when I search for the following diseases?

Squirrels are known to carry numerous diseases, though only a few are dangerous to humans. Some of the more common include tularemia, typhus, plague, and ringworm. Such diseases are transmitted through bites or other forms of direct contact with infected squirrels.

[DealorNoDeal]

Anyways back to Dominic Cummings

Has he got squirrel STDs in his medical history too?

[mallisarealperson]

Anyways back to Dominic Cummings

[AtW]

As for leakage, how secure is Facebook, CUK, WhatsApp, Twitter or any number of service providers that you use every day...?

They don't hold detailed medical records.

[malvolio]

It won’t be aggregated - FTFA:

”Data that directly identifies patients will be replaced with unique codes in the new data set, but the NHS will hold the keys to unlock the codes “in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason”, according to its website.”

Medical histories pretty unique - should be easy to identify when ransomware hackers leak that data

”Patients have until June 23 to opt out by filling in a form and taking it to their GP before their historical records will become a permanent and irreversible part of the new data set” - totally against GDPR

It’s fooking full medical histories FFS.

What’s next - store all confessions in Vatican for analysis?

How much epidemiological knowledge can you gain from looking at an individual record? On a need to know basis the NHS already owns the data and the personal details anyway, so that's not an issue. Research will be done against specific data items such as symptoms, outcomes, diseases, inoculations, whatever: individual records are of no value at all.

As for leakage, how secure is Facebook, CUK, WhatsApp, Twitter or any number of service providers that you use every day...?

I do have a large roll of tin foil if that would help.

[AtW]

GDPR only applies to identifiable personal details, not aggregated data. The research is not interested in individuals, but populations.

It won’t be aggregated - FTFA:

”Data that directly identifies patients will be replaced with unique codes in the new data set, but the NHS will hold the keys to unlock the codes “in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason”, according to its website.”

Medical histories pretty unique - should be easy to identify when ransomware hackers leak that data

”Patients have until June 23 to opt out by filling in a form and taking it to their GP before their historical records will become a permanent and irreversible part of the new data set” - totally against GDPR

It’s fooking full medical histories FFS.

What’s next - store all confessions in Vatican for analysis?

[mallisarealperson]

I would not be surprised if the average person did not really care.

So many now are happy to have an amazon listening device in there homes.

And with WhatsApp etc. Peoples data is everywhere.

[minestrone]

Patient records just now are largely sitting on hard drives in surgeries with back up tapes that probably are saving nothing.

It's a total disaster and needs to be centrally stored.

It's comical but a hard drive getting full basically shuts them down for days. Happens a fair bit.

[malvolio]

of England

OK, fair enough. The UK population is 66 and a bit millions. There are 10 or so million in Scotland (5.4m), Wales (3m) and Non Iron (1.8m) combined. So it's wrong, but not by that much.