The confidential well being data of half 1,000,000 British volunteers have been supplied on the market on Chinese language web site Alibaba, the UK authorities has confirmed.
The “de-identified” information, belonging to contributors within the UK Biobank challenge, was discovered on the market on three separate listings final week. Ian Murray, the know-how minister, advised the Commons on Thursday that, after working with the Chinese language authorities and Alibaba, the data had now been eliminated. It’s not believed any gross sales have been made.
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