Britain’s National Health Service plans to let medical researchers have access to patient’s private files – a move that the key data watchdog organisation has called ethically unnacceptable. Here the advance of technology, the desire for information and post Nine Eleven anti-terror values are coming together. In the minds of many a better a safer world is one in which in know as much about each other as possible. As yet, there is little serious debate as to how far it should go.

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