The Health Secretary insists that NHS patient data will be 'protected and anonymised' (Image: PA)
IN answer to real concerns about privacy and the vagaries of cyber security, Wes Streeting proclaimed – as you’d expect an automaton to – that patient data will be “protected and anonymised”.
This prompts the question: did Labour just plug him in last week? Did he miss every single one of the mass hacking scandals and huge data breaches and shambolic cyber failures of recent times?
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The only people who seem to be successfully protected and anonymised by our major institutions are the likes of Jimmy Savile and Mohamed Al Fayed.
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
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