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That's the least of it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o All 500,000 participants for sale on

• fastaguy88 5mo ago
  BioBank claims (1) only de-identified data was available and (2) none of the data was actually sold before the datasets were taken down.
  • john_strinlai 5mo ago
    unfortunately for most people, de-identified data is typically a very short analysis away from being re-identified. the field of de-anonymization is booming.
    • nxobject 5mo ago
      Especially for a nation-state that's already hoovering up data broker products.
• nxobject 5mo ago
  More details on leaked information from El Reg, especially after (laudably) the British government has been more transparent: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/500k_biobank_volunteers_data_listed/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/500k_biobank_voluntee... "The charity did not specify the types of data that were included, but Murray stated in the Commons that several markers were included in the listings: - Gender - Age - Month and year of birth - Assessment center data - Attendance dates - Socioeconomic status - Lifestyle habits - Measures from biological samples related to haematology, biology, and chemistry - Sleep, diet, work environment, mental health, and health outcomes data."
• aaron695 5mo ago
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