Good interoperability policy should put the user front and center: data sharing must only happen with a user’s opt-in consent, and only for purposes that directly benefit the user.

New automatic extraction of data from GP-held patient records, due to come into force next month, are ‘far bigger’ and ‘more intrusive’ than care.data, GP privacy campaigners have warned.

The Data Services & Analytics has data on 650 million people and has been accused of creating a “super database”

Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change.