[Med-privacy] more from Britain

[Jeff Williams]

Ross and all,

  We in this similar consideration as well.   "opt out" should always
be available for any individual in regards to medical records, financial
data (unless a criminal investigation is warranted by court order), and
credit data.

Ross Anderson wrote:

> 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
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Regards,

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