The Great Health Data Grab: How COVID privatised your information

<p>The COVID pandemic has given unscrupulous data traffickers the opportunity they needed to hoover up vast quantities of <strong>private patient data</strong>, with Government connivance –&nbsp;and often with Government funding. Investigative journalist <strong>Nafeez Ahmed</strong> tells Alex Andreou what is happening to our private information, and what we need to do to stop an information grab that the Government is concealing from us.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>“We’re faced with a monolith of huge transnational power with access for the first time to private health data.”</li><li>“You’re seeing tiny front companies with no track record getting contracts with responsibility for life and death.”&nbsp;</li><li>“This is a danger to our democracy and a danger to the NHS.”</li><li>“At this point, being paranoid about what Dominic Cummings is doing with data is absolutely important.”</li><li>“When the Government says data will remain private, how much confidence can we realistically have that it will be?”</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>