Private medical data donated to UK Biobank is touted for sale on a Chinese website

About this episode

The episode discusses the sale of confidential medical data from the UK Biobank on a Chinese website, along with comments from President Trump on UK politics and the death of pianist Ruth Slenczynska.

Confidential medical data donated by half a million British volunteers to the UK Biobank project has been put up for sale on a Chinese website. Also: President Trump tells the BBC Sir Keir Starmer can recover his popularity, but only if he's more robust about immigration and opens up the North Sea for more oil drilling. And the virtuoso pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, has died at the age of 101.

Topics covered

• medical data
• UK Biobank
• Trump
• Keir Starmer
• Ruth Slenczynska
• oil drilling
• China

Keywords

• medical data
• UK Biobank
• Trump
• Keir Starmer
• Ruth Slenczynska
• China
• oil drilling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UK Biobank

Places: China

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