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UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba

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The NHS does it so badly that they brought in Palantir.

... which provides software to help NHS personnel utilize their own data...

Yes, by Palantir setting it all up and providing reports etc for clinical staff and bureaucrats.

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Yeah. The data vacuum whose CEO loves to talk about how effectively their software helps the US government kill people is exactly who should have unfettered access to extremely intimate details of many people’s existence, without their permission.

Good data infrastructure can be used for all sorts of things If anything, the fact the US IC, DOD, NIH, and NHS trust the software with such sensitive and operationally critical data is positive signal Do you believe these customers don't audit systems/processes that they put their data into?

> Do you believe these customers don't audit systems/processes that they put their data into?

They are not an intelligent buyer when it comes to tech.

Re: UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba

#93

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Good data infrastructure can be used for all sorts of things If anything, the fact the US IC, DOD, NIH, and NHS trust the software with such sensitive and operationally critical data is positive signal Do you believe these customers don't audit systems/processes that they put their data into?

> Do you believe these customers don't audit systems/processes that they put their data into? They are not an intelligent buyer when it comes to tech.

Who is “they?” All of the US IC and most of the Fortune 500?

Re: UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba

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> Do you believe these customers don't audit systems/processes that they put their data into? They are not an intelligent buyer when it comes to tech.

Who is “they?” All of the US IC and most of the Fortune 500?

I meant the NHS specifically. I don't know about the others.
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