[Med-privacy] more from Britain

[Ross Anderson]

Yesterday we launched a campaign aimed at persuading large numbers of
people to opt out of having their medical records 'uploaded' to a
national database. At the launch meeting, we unveiled an opinion poll
showing that 53% of UK citizens oppose the idea of a central medical
records database with no opt-out:

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1960170,00.html

The campaign website is at http:www.thebigoptout.org.

Last week another poll showed that a majority of family doctors
would not upload patient data without consent:

  http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,,1953185,00.html

This comes in the wake of a report from FIPR criticising proposals
to centralise and link up all public-sector data on children as
being illegal and unsafe:

  http://www.fipr.org/

More at http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/

Ross