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==NSA and GCHQ updates==
==NSA and GCHQ updates==
''See our [[Guardian and Snowden revelations 2013|full list of the Guardian and Snowden’s revelations]].''
''See our [[Guardian and Snowden revelations 2013|full list of the Guardian and Snowden’s revelations]].''
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===GCHQ captures images of thousands using Yahoo Webchat===
===NSA extends surveillance to German ministers since Obama's ban on Merkel===
===NSA extends surveillance to German ministers since Obama's ban on Merkel===
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===Hospital records sold to insurance companies as care.data delayed===
===Hospital records sold to insurance companies as care.data delayed===
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The records were sold to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries - a body of professionals who analyse information to predict risk - in 2012. The information [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26329748 includes] details on hospital treatments and diagnoses, age of the patient and the area they lived in, their names were not included. A spokeswoman for the HSCIC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26329748 said] "We would like to restate that full postcodes and dates of birth were not supplied as part of this data and that it was not used to analyse individual insurance premiums, but to analyse general variances in critical illness."
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However, the Staple Inn Actuarial Society said the information was used to
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13 years of hospital data – covering 47 million patients http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10659147/Patient-records-should-not-have-been-sold-NHS-admits.html
hospital in-patient stays between 1997 and 2010 was used to track patients' medical histories, identified by date of birth and postcode http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/24/hospital-records-nhs-patients-insurance
hospital in-patient stays between 1997 and 2010 was used to track patients' medical histories, identified by date of birth and postcode http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/24/hospital-records-nhs-patients-insurance
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The £2,220 purchase in 2012 was made by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries – a professional body for professionals who work for insurance and investment companies risk experts who work for insurance and investment companies.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10659147/Patient-records-should-not-have-been-sold-NHS-admits.html
The £2,220 purchase in 2012 was made by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries – a professional body for professionals who work for insurance and investment companies risk experts who work for insurance and investment companies.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10659147/Patient-records-should-not-have-been-sold-NHS-admits.html
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details on treatments and diagnoses, age, the area the patient lived in, but not their names. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26329748
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"We would like to restate that full postcodes and dates of birth were not supplied as part of this data and that it was not used to analyse individual insurance premiums, but to analyse general variances in critical illness."
It said it would publish details of the bodies to whom it supplied such data later this year.Health and Social Care Information Centre said: "The HSCIC bbc
It said it would publish details of the bodies to whom it supplied such data later this year.Health and Social Care Information Centre said: "The HSCIC bbc