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The Independent View: The Coalition needs to get serious about protecting citizens’ privacy

Slowly, we are waking up to the enormous risk to personal privacy posed by the misuse of personal information.

Big Brother Watch’s report into the data protection breaches in the NHS highlighted a number of harrowing individual cases. However, the wider cultural question is the one which should be of greatest concern.

In an age when ever more personal information is collected as a matter of routine by both the public and private sector, how that information is held and protected is of critical importance. When that information is of the kind of sensitive details found in medical records, …

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