Government attacked on NHS database u-turn

[paulnolan]

The right-wing civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has attacked the government for doing a “u-turn” on medical data storage.

The coalition announced this week it would continue building the ‘Summary Care Record’ database.

The Conservative policy was: ‘A Conservative government would “dismantle” central NHS IT infrastructure, halt and renegotiate

Comments

[havealemon]

Why would they bother doing this? Why?? *headdesk*

[filbypott]

right-wing civil liberties group

AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--

*wheeze*

*cough*

I mean...

AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!

[paulnolan]

I think it means libertarians (who, while I'm not exactly keen on their "yay capitalism" views, have their heads screwed on right re. civil liberties).

[filbypott]

Please, libertarians only care about their civil liberties.

[paulnolan]

With right-wingedness comes selfishness. ;)

I vastly prefer them to standard, neo-con right-wingers though.

[excitedrainbow]

Wait, WHAT? They get rid of almost everything else in the Repeal Bill (ID cards etc) but not this, why?