Re:HMRC 'plans to share tax data with private firms'
by ZenPro on Sunday April 20, 2014 @02:42PM
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You are right. Upon inspection the incident was far less threatening than reported. I was wrong.
As an example of potential abuses by public departments selling data I think it still stands though.
The link you've just posted has the NHS-linked body in question admitting "greater scrutiny should have been applied" in this instance, but actually reasserts all the points made by IFoA: they're not an insurer, it's a general study on frequencies of illnesses amongst certain demographics and there's no personally-identifiable data accessible to insurers as a result of this. The HSCIC making a hand-wavy non-apology != the NHS confirming that this is an example of a private firm they sold your medical records to