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UK: Your privacy for sale: From plastic surgery to eating disorders, medical secrets sold to the cold call sharks

Posted on April 4, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Katherine Faulkner, Paul Bentley, and Lucy Osborne continue the Daily Mail‘s reporting on the sale of personal information in the UK:

A firm linked to the sale of NHS patient data is offering details of eating disorder sufferers for just 12p a head, the Mail can reveal today.

It has also offered to supply names of those suffering from stress, hair loss, dandruff, impotence and snoring.

Even details of dieters and those who have had plastic surgery appear on the list of data for sale.

The Mail has this week exposed companies that have secretly sold private financial and medical information without proper checks.

Read more on Daily Mail.

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