Security News > 2020 > March > UK.gov is not sharing Brits' medical data among different agencies... but it's having a jolly good think about it
At an event run by think tank The Institute for Government last month, he was asked about proposals that could allow the sharing of medical and social care data across government bodies under the Digital Economy Act 2017.
The Public Service Delivery Review Board has suggested that it will ask government to extend the Digital Economy Act to include the sharing of medical data across government, something primary legislation currently prevents.
DCMS is preparing a Framework for Data Processing by government departments as required under the Data Protection Act 2018.
Last year a broad group of lobby organisations - including the Institute for Government, the Royal Statistical Society, the Open Data Institute and the Policy Institute at King's College London - wrote to DCMS with concerns about its approach to the National Data Strategy.
The Register has contacted the DCMS for a response, but we fear the government wants to be allowed to share our data much more than it wants to share information about data sharing with us.