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by bigs 520 days ago
Wasn’t NHS data anonymised, split into sets and sold a decade ago, then some corp bought multiple sets of the data and combined them easily, de-anonymising it?
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The "solution" to this is to criminalise de-anonymising the data, like the geniuses in the Australian government.

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/29/researchers_crack_oz_...