The British government has released documents detailing parts of the relationship between the National Health Service and for-profit surveillance firms such as Faculty and Palantir and global consultancies such as McKinsey, following the threat of court proceedings brought by openDemocracy and Foxglove. Phil Booth, coordinator of the organisation medConfidential that campaigns for patient confidentiality and consent in Britain, explains the “devastating” revelations in the documents as well as what is still unknown about how the private information of millions of people is being handled. Sputnik: The last time we spoke you explained that NHS data was at risk from for-profit-surveillance firms. Since […]
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