No, there is plenty of justification for outrage all round. The NHS staff shouldn't have given the data to an untrustworthy organisation. That organisation shouldn't have given it to a data mining company under the jurisdiction of a foreign government. And that data mining company and foreign government will deserve similar outrage if they don't properly delete the illegally uploaded data as soon as possible after they are properly notified of the circumstances.
It wasn't necessary to share these records like this. You seem to be confusing access by clinicians, or at least legitimate medical researchers subject to similar medical ethics and confidentiality rules, with (as now alleged) just leaving it out there for literally anyone to find it.
Perhaps you aren't outraged by this, but I'll bet most people with a sensitive medical condition that might lead to unjustified discrimination would be. First they came for the HIV-positive, but I was not HIV-positive and I said nothing.
No, there is plenty of justification for outrage all round. The NHS staff shouldn't have given the data to an untrustworthy organisation. That organisation shouldn't have given it to a data mining company under the jurisdiction of a foreign government. And that data mining company and foreign government will deserve similar outrage if they don't properly delete the illegally uploaded data as soon as possible after they are properly notified of the circumstances.
It wasn't necessary to share these records like this. You seem to be confusing access by clinicians, or at least legitimate medical researchers subject to similar medical ethics and confidentiality rules, with (as now alleged) just leaving it out there for literally anyone to find it.
Perhaps you aren't outraged by this, but I'll bet most people with a sensitive medical condition that might lead to unjustified discrimination would be. First they came for the HIV-positive, but I was not HIV-positive and I said nothing.