Rosa’s latest piece for The Conversation:
“Recent reports have indicated that the Home Office has enjoyed access to the NHS records of more than 6,900 people since 2010, and used information from them for ramped-up efforts to track down illegal migrants.
While data protection laws protect medical records from most types of scrutiny, a largely overlooked exemption has allowed the government to directly access patients’ non-clinical records. No court order is required for this access.”
Read more:
Snooping on irregular migrants breaches their human rights – and puts us all at risk.