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A CHARITY is seeking a judicial review of a secret data-sharing deal between the government and the NHS to assist immigration enforcement.
NHS Digital and the Department of Health signed a “memorandum of understanding” in January to give the Home Office access to patients’ personal information in cases where it believes someone is in Britain without permission.
The Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) says this violates patients’ privacy and puts all migrants at risk.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH
