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Previously on "All Your Data Belongs To Us"

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
    what happened to GDPR or is that scrapped now ?
    GDPR exists - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations...gulation-gdpr/

    This is different and the government has tried something similar a couple of times before.

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  • Andy2
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    what happened to GDPR or is that scrapped now ?

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  • SueEllen
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    Update coming.

    Date has been moved to 1st September 2021
    Last edited by SueEllen; 8 June 2021, 11:52.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

    You could always engage a bit of restraint instead of producing a near-constant stream of utter drivel

    Hmm. It seems that merging also just deletes posts. Oh well. Must get around to telling Nick. Eventually...

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    There is still time...
    I've filled out the form and printed it out. I just haven't managed to get off my arse and walk it the 200 yards to the surgery.

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  • SueEllen
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    There is still time...

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Is it? Do you?
    I like to think so!

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    Simply put, it's my personal data and I have the right to decide what happens to it.
    Is it? Do you?

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post


    A lot of people agreeing with me...
    Print it out and frame it!

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  • AtW
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    A lot of people agreeing with me...

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    If The Guardian (leftie), The DM (right), the Beeb (opposite political wing to what you believe), the FT ( monied wing), the Metro (commuter wing) and others media outlets are all raising alarms over this, then it people need to revolt and opt-out on mass to make the government reconsider.
    ^^this.

    It seems to have cross-media attention now with none of them finding a positive angle.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Hmmmmm.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ners-warn.html

    It ain't necessarily false because it's in the DM.
    If The Guardian (leftie), The DM (right), the Beeb (opposite political wing to what you believe), the FT ( monied wing), the Metro (commuter wing) and others media outlets are all raising alarms over this, then it people need to revolt and opt-out on mass to make the government reconsider.

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

    So naive - The data will be priceless to large pharmaceutical companies flogging expensive treatments, and the Government will never be able to resist the temptation to release the personalised data for large sums, so those companies can spam people with ads to treat irrelevant ailments.
    FTFY

    The aim of the pharmaceutical industry is to create a drug for a problem that doesn't exist then convince people they have something wrong that needs fixing. If they can repurpose an existing drug for a new ailment that keeps it out of the mits of the generic drug producers and keeps it in copyright (or whatever it is, I forget) then they get 'double bubble' revenue. Viagra is an excellent example (originally hypertension, then keeping your pecker up), Liraglutide is another (originally diabetes control, then weight loss).

    Not saying erectile dysfunction and obesity are irrelevant or not important but they are essentially selling a drug developed for one thing for another purpose because of its side effects. Mining that data from medical records will lead to more of that 'find a problem to sell a fix for'.
    Last edited by ladymuck; 3 June 2021, 08:11.

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  • xoggoth
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    Hmmmmm.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ners-warn.html

    It ain't necessarily false because it's in the DM.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    The data they use is anonymous. All you're doing by excluding your data is holding up medical research.

    I used to work for a major Internet company and the privacy laws in this sector are taken very seriously. There's no way you can trace this data back to an individual.
    So naive - The data will be priceless to large pharmaceutical companies flogging expensive treatments, and the Government will never be able to resist the temptation to release the personalised data for large sums, so those companies can spam people with ads to treat relevant ailments.

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