The Great Health Data Grab: How COVID privatised your information

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The COVID pandemic has given unscrupulous data traffickers the opportunity they needed to hoover up vast quantities of private patient data, with Government connivance – and often with Government funding. Investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed 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. “We’re faced with a monolith of huge transnational power with access for the first time to private health data.” “You’re seeing tiny front companies with no track record getting contracts with responsibility for life and death.” “This is a danger to our democracy and a danger to the NHS.” “At this point, being paranoid about what Dominic Cummings is doing with data is absolutely important.” “When the Government says data will remain private, how much confidence can we realistically have that it will be?” Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:35.0	especially in the information field can look like the family tree of the most
1:40.0	incestuous group of people of all time. My guest today is the author of The War on Freedom,
1:46.7	The War on Truth, and a user's guide to the crisis of civilization,
1:50.7	as well as an academic and an investigative journalist. He has been doing
1:55.2	incredible work as part of the team at Byline Times under the broad umbrella
1:59.9	Whitehall Analytica and he's here to help us untangle this Byzantine mess.
2:05.6	Welcome, Nafi's Ahmed.
2:08.0	Hey Alex, thanks for having me on.
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