More than a million people opted out of NHS data-sharing in one month in a huge backlash against government plans to make patient data available to private companies, the Observer has revealed. Under the scheme, GP health data for everyone in England, with identities partially removed, would be made available to researchers and companies for …
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“One key reason for adding a registration wall is to better understand your audience. Now instead of thinking you have two different users on desktop and mobile, you will be able to link these reading activities together via the user’s email address.In the UK, The Telegraph has also found success with a premium tier of …
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“The future of privacy is likely to be complicated. For starters, no one can even agree what “privacy” means today. Some argue its first obituary was written 21 years ago when Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, pronounced: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” That may, technically speaking, be true. A different …
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“Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?” A much needed paradigm shift. The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states