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That's the least of it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o

All 500,000 participants for sale on Alibaba...

And official response: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-message-to-our-participan...

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BioBank claims (1) only de-identified data was available and (2) none of the data was actually sold before the datasets were taken down.

unfortunately for most people, de-identified data is typically a very short analysis away from being re-identified.

the field of de-anonymization is booming.




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