Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website
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A Guardian report states that de-identified health and genomic records belonging to about 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers were listed for sale on Alibaba; Chinese authorities and Alibaba removed the listings and no sale is believed to have occurred. UK Biobank has suspended access, referred itself to the ICO, and is implementing technical and process changes after acknowledging failures that allowed data to be taken from its cloud research platform, with noted risk of re-identification.
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