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UK government could face legal action over huge, secretive health database

Exclusive: Lawyers acting for openDemocracy have written to health secretary Sajid Javid demanding transparency over database originally run by Palantir

UK government could face legal action over huge, secretive health database
openDemocracy has written to Sajid Javid demanding transparency
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Lawyers acting on behalf of openDemocracy have written to the British government demanding transparency over a massive health database that campaigners fear could break legal promises made about the use of the public’s health data after the pandemic.

Privacy campaigners have raised increasing concerns about the role of private sector firms in British health data.

Last month the government ended a controversial deal to handle adult social care data with US ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir.