Dear Google, am I pregnant? - Charlie's Diary
Now it appears that PA Consulting staff uploaded the entire hoard to Google servers based outside the UK ?a process that took weeks, as the data came to them archived on 27 DVDs (making it on the order of 125Gb, after compression).
Hasnain says:
"I'm asking because it now appears that management consultants PA Consulting acquired the hospital admission and treatment records of every NHS patient in England and Wales (all 47 million of them). This is almost certainly inappropriate, and comes at a point when the roll-out of the care.data national health statistics database is on hold for six months over concerns about who would be able to access it and whether the records could be de-anonymized. Now it appears that PA Consulting staff uploaded the entire hoard to Google servers based outside the UK—a process that took weeks, as the data came to them archived on 27 DVDs (making it on the order of 125Gb, after compression)."
Posted on 2014-03-03T18:26:30+0000