This has gone on for years but under the guise of us giving consent.
How many of us have taken out life insurance linked to a mortgage?
We give our medical histories and tick the box to say they can check our records. We look like we are being asked consent but it is coercion. Failure to tick the box means no mortgage.
Insurance companies have been checking our HIV statuses and terminal illness statuses for years and I guarantee you that they do check, as I had some queries raised about an operation I had last year by a travel insurance firm. I wasn't even aware that I had given them permission to delve into my history but there you go.....
Private & public organisations have had access to our data for years, including medical data. They use it to form our national statistics, work out which services are required in which area eg. smoking cessation, increased screening etc.
Personally, I think it stinks
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