Are we too egotistical about our data?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.1 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tim Montgomerie is joined by Hugo Rifkind, Alice Thomson and Libby Purves.Hugo Rifkind says it's not the fault of the NHS or the Government that a pioneering programme to create a shared database of patient information has been suspended. It's ours. Are we too shrill when it comes to personal data?Alice Thomson suggests that we need to teach girls to be more robust and to realise that A* grades don't necessarily define them. Mary Beard, Angela Merkel, Clare Balding - are these the role models we should be encouraging?Libby Purves tackles London's rising, and often unaffordable property prices, head on. Should the Government do more to discourage foreign investors using the capital as their own private 'piggy bank'? "There are sharper things they could do, but they're all flirt!" Subscribe in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/did-you-read Subscribe to The Times: www.thetimes.co.uk Follow The Times Opinion pages on Twitter: @TimesOpinion

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0:50.0	Did you read with Tim Montgomery.
0:55.0	Welcome to another edition of Times Opinions Podcast, Did You Read.
1:01.0	Joining me today, Tim Montgomery, comment editor of The Times are three columnist
1:05.4	Hugo Rifkind, Alice Thompson and Libby Purvis.
1:10.8	It's not the fault of the NHS or the government that a pioneering program to create a shared database with patient information has been suspended.
1:18.0	It's our fault.
1:19.0	We are shrill and egotistical about our data.
1:22.0	In fact, nobody gives a damn about our private details
1:24.6	except us and sharing it could save lives. Girls, often natural perfectionists are now
1:30.8	being pressurized into being impossibly perfect.
1:33.0	We need to teach them to be more robust than to realize that looks and A-stars don't define them.
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