{"id":512,"date":"2006-11-01T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=512"},"modified":"2006-11-01T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T09:57:58","slug":"finally-a-how-in-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Finally a “How” in The Guardian!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday November 1, 2006
\nThe Guardian
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\nRoss Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, believes that patients do have legal rights over their medical records: “Write and insist that you are not put on the NHS data spine,” Prof Anderson says. “If enough people boycott having centralised NHS records, with a bit of luck the service will be abandoned.”<\/p>\n

If you are concerned, you should discuss it with your GP. You can put a block on your own data by writing to:<\/p>\n

The Secretary of State for Health
\nRichmond House
\n79 Whitehall Terrace
\nLondon SW1A 2NS<\/p>\n

And send the same letter to your GP.<\/p>\n

It should say:<\/p>\n

Dear Sir\/ Madam<\/p>\n

I require you not to begin processing my sensitive personal data to the proposed NHS Summary Care Record on the Spine. It is likely to cause me substantial unwarranted distress because:<\/p>\n

1. No ‘sealed envelopes’ yet exist to limit access<\/p>\n

2. No online patient system yet exists to correct errors<\/p>\n

3. Data uploaded may include genetic, psychological or sexual information<\/p>\n

4. It is intended to make my data available to social workers, researchers and commercial firms<\/p>\n

5. My consent will not be asked before beginning processing<\/p>\n

6. Adequate criminal penalties against abuse do not yet exist<\/p>\n

7. Police and other agencies can gain access to a potentially unlimited range of information about me. There is abundant evidence that computer databases – including police, vehicle licensing and banking computers – are routinely penetrated by private investigators on behalf of clients, including media organisations<\/p>\n

8. 250,000 smart cards have been issued granting access to the Spine<\/p>\n

9. The department threatens to withhold appropriate medical care to objectors<\/p>\n

10. Doctors say there is no necessity to design the Spine in this way<\/p>\n

For these reasons, among others, I strongly fear that I am in danger of having false or damaging health information fall into the wrong hands. My privacy is being unnecessarily violated.<\/p>\n

Yours faithfully<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Via Blogzilla<\/a><\/p>\n

Personally I think points 5, 7 & 10 are compelling enough reasons for why this scheme is ‘bad news’ and point 2 (implicitly requesting online access) could actually make data safety worse.
\nHopefully this means a progression in the mainstream media from the simple reporting of undesirable schemes and legislation into a more robust way of enabling their readers to oppose wayward Statist interventionism.<\/p>\n

Now they need to do the same for the looming NIR roll out – and soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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