'Abhorrent' hospital staff looked at Nottingham attacks victims' records The bereaved families of the Nottingham attacks victims have accused some hospital staff of 'abhorrent voyeurism'

150 staff had a look.

And still the NHS & DHSC think staff creeping on patients is fine

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub Tracking DMCA takedown notices filed by UK Biobank against GitHub repositories where researchers accidentally published participant health data.

This from @rocher.lc is very very funny
biobank.rocher.lc

"Straight away, this is ringing alarm bells for me, because it’s breaking almost all of Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington’s sensible principles for governance of public sector consultancy contracts – transparent pricing, a clear end date, knowledge transfer as part of the specification."

brain donors of the firm giving it all away and paying for the privilege

I muse on what it is about Palantir's business model that triggers my spidey sense ... backofmind.substack.com/p/brain-dono...

Cancer in cats, dogs, and humans (in that order?) medconfidential.org/2026/dog-can...

The old adage "no one ever got fired for hiring IBM" could be usefully updated to "no one ever got fired for suggesting 'innovation'". Our institutions are in total thrall to the miracle prospect that this one weird trick will get rid of institutional belly fat, and it is really time to move on.

Biobank screwed up again. medconfidential.org/2026/biobank...

The Guardian have one mockup of the new app and what ID will do www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

👀 Did you post this to my office? Written with pink/purple ink? I'd really like to talk to you if so, I can protect your identity but what you sent was really important but not enough on its own. Get in touch via DM email etc... Pls RT.

Current and imminent moving parts that’ll take your health records and do things with them

medconfidential.org/2026/moving-...

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

Move fast, fix things, and clean up? On 20th January, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones gave a “Move fast. Fix things” speech on rewiring Whitehall and building the new digital state. We’ve gone through it line by lin…

Move fast, fix things…. Who does the clean up?

(With an aside on the very odd location by the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk and cameo from the yimby bros)

www.no2id.uk/2026/move-fa...

Donate to NO2ID If you can help us, please do. Every penny we receive is spent opposing digital ID Cards and stopping the Database State. You can donate online using your credit card or via PayPal: one off donatio…

We’ll be doing more much-loved (and still worn!) NO2ID metal pin badges. We’ll send some to those who donate more than £40 – your donations will help us do the first manufacturing run, which takes a month. www.no2id.uk/donations/

Beyond disappointed with anyone I work with who supports the FDP and SPR after we witnessed the route to policy. It never solved a technical issue.

Governance lessons from the UK-US PETs Pilot for cancer research The UK-US Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) pilot demonstrates how privacy-by-design can be applied to international data sharing and provides a concrete model for future PETs projects across gove...

GDS talking about cancer data sharing of "ultra-rare cancerhood tumours" but without allowing analysis to be reported on less than 5 patients... What "ultra-rare" definition have they made up? dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/15/g...

This might epitomise the sheer ignorance of DSIT “Ian Murray, the minister for digital government and data, said: “The front door of the NHS is the A&E department.”

The way you can tell it’s Palantir is they never mention who built it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We mention that people may have kids, NHSE assume you only care about yourself

There were plans written in silos and promoting particular viewpoints - see TBI on ID cards and John Bell on replacing NHS doctors with AIs and pharma bsky.app/profile/dann...

We’ll talk to patients/groups involved first, which will likely be after Xmas now

Yes. NHSE bullying is uneven

It’s more stupid than that bsky.app/profile/medc...

See also Lewisham Migrant Charging inquiry report recommendation 26 - which was rejected www.savelewishamhospital.com/wp-content/u...

More specifically, the data that says you’re eligible comes from NHS England, but if that’s wrong the hospital relying on it gets (actively) punished, so…

Yes bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Making Palantir irreplaceable - NHSE England’s choices
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DH has reannounced their lack of progress on business models for NHS IP. On that same basis, here’s what we said in January which is a minor tweak from 2019
medconfidential.org/2025/busines...

A warning for experts by experience medconfidential.org/2025/a-warni...

Palantir and choices in public health bsky.app/profile/melo...

They misled the review board about the safeguards