Preparations are under way to transfer the records to UK Biobank, a research hub that holds detailed medical information donated by 500,000 volunteers. One of the world’s largest troves of health data, the facility makes its information available to universities, scientific institutes and private companies. A Guardian analysis shows one in five successful applications for access come from China.
What exactly is the problem? People voluntarily opt in to have their data used for research purposes and a quarter of those researchers happen to be Chinese. Names and birthdays are also stripped.
How much of this is also given to the Americans? Conveniently not mentioned despite American countries having a fetish for our personal data
Hacking, even on an insecure system, would be illegal. Any copyright troll trying to sue a single user for having a private jellyfin instance which they hacked to find out about would probably have a hard time actually making a case.
“Yeah, this one guy was distributing films to himself and a few friends. I know because I hacked him” doesn’t seem like a good case.
I actually heard a story where someone made an allegation of racism against somebody, the police logged it but never visited that person or informed them about it. Then that person had a check for a job (I believe working with Children) which involved seeing police records, and it was recorded there. It couldn’t be overturned or be removed because it was in no way a conviction, but it still stopped them from getting a job regardless.
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Cartoon villain behaviour