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UK Biobank health data listed for sale in China, government confirms
(
www.bbc.co.uk
)
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mellosouls
6 hours ago
1 comment
rwmj
5 hours ago
Biobank might have only told the government about this on Monday, but here's an article from 1 month ago about the records being leaked (to github!) during 2025:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/14/confidential...
monkeydust
26 minutes ago
What a joke and not a good one. I remember getting the letter through post to participate and telling my wife I don't trust these guys with that level of personal information. Sad that it came true.
basisword
4 hours ago
They should be permanently shut down if that’s the case.
dahinds
43 minutes ago
Not sure how that follows. It seems mostly irrelevant whether the new incident is related to the github issue.