Reply to post: Re: Consequences

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

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Re: Consequences

>If they just grabbed the data anyway, then what would be the consequences?

It only works once and screws the chance of future 'cooperation'

It works for police/immigration but not for well paying commercial customers.

If I'm an insurance company in the future looking for prime customers - having partial data from a grab 10 years ago with no updates isn't that much use to me.

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