Data Privacy
Total 5 Posts
Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: Give us back control of our data.
5 min read
The web’s inventor believes the liberation of our data will help redistribute power on the internet.
Behavioural science can help make the UK’s track and trace app a success.
5 min read
While the delay to releasing the Track & Trace app is disappointing, it’s a chance to use behavioural science to optimise its design. Downloading the app is only the first step – and arguably the easiest.
Why we need to know more about the UK government’s COVID-19 data project – and the companies working on it.
5 min read
We don’t know what NHSX or its private partners Palantir and Faculty are doing with medical data. And that should worry you.
Coronavirus: Researchers no longer need consent to access your medical records.
5 min read
The UK government has quietly relaxed a confidentiality law that protects patient health data. Here is why that matters.
Coronavirus: Survey reveals what the public wants from a contact-tracing app.
5 min read
While a sense of common fate was a strong force in the early weeks of lockdown, it’s less clear that the same will be true in this next period.