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British government under fire for upload of millions of medical records
Joel Hruska extremetech.com According to explosive allegations from prominent Tory MP Sarah Wollaston, the consulting firm PA Consulting may have conducted one of the largest and most serious misuses of data in history by uploading 27 DVDs worth of “pseudonymised hospital episodes statistics” into Google BigQuery. Google BigQuery is a cloud-based Big Data analysis suite that’s designed to quickly parse huge data sets in seconds to return useful information. The allegations against PA Consulting are particularly damning at the moment. A month ago, the UK announced that the NHS (National Health Service) would begin selling data to health insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. This provoked a firestorm of controversy that hasn’t been assauged by promises to anonymize the data. So-called “anonymizing” techniques have proven pitifully easy to break in most cases. Studies have shown that 87% of Americans can be uniquely identified using just three pieces of data — birth date, gender, and zip code. to read more: extremetech.com
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