As the British tax and customs office loses 25 million confidential records in the post, the programme to introduce a centralized National Health Service database slouches on, only delayed by a classically wasteful Private Finance Initiative project. Total data transparency may be good for corporations and security obsessed governments, but what does it mean for the recipients of “joined-up care”?, asks Damian Abbott.
Damian Abbott
is a co-founder and editor of Inventory and has worked under various pseudonyms on other collective enterprises.
