The article wasn't positing scenarios enabled by a nation's intelligence arm having access to the health records; it was positing burglary gangs, religious organizations, and insurance companies having (and abusing) access to the data. I suppose one could posit a scenario where an intelligence agency abuses access to the health records of citizens of another nation, but the scenarios highlighted in the article are not enabled by PA uploading the data to Google's servers. I'd even go so far as to argue that the specific scenarios highlighted in the article are LESS likely if PA uploaded the data to Google's service and then destroyed the originals; "27 DVDs" is a format far more likely to be stolen by a burglary gang.
Assuming the author's scenarios are enabled by NSA access assumes a much, much larger global conspiracy against the people of England and Wales than I'd be willing to assume.
(This thought process even grants the assumption that the NSA has some kind of clear-text access to the data in Google's services these days, which is also not an assumption I'd make.)
Assuming the author's scenarios are enabled by NSA access assumes a much, much larger global conspiracy against the people of England and Wales than I'd be willing to assume.
(This thought process even grants the assumption that the NSA has some kind of clear-text access to the data in Google's services these days, which is also not an assumption I'd make.)