UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp

It's pretty disgusting the way they are trying to slip this through the backdoor. They are also making it super difficult to opt-out - you have to print out a form and physically hand it to your gp if you have children for example. Not also that there are TWO opt-outs that you have to do. This site is a great explanation of what you need to do: https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/

The NHS digital one is almost purposely confusing.

I am in the UK and this is the first I have heard of this and I consider myself well informed.

I am actually not necessarily against this in principal but its been really badly communicated (lack of it) so a delay seems reasonable to me.

I can't help but feel calling this GPDPR is a sly attempt to associate it with GDPR.

That said, the linked article doesn't give any good reason why our heath data shouldn't be used for research and planning. It's clearly in the public interest.

Of course I have little faith that the UK government won't leave it lying on a train somewhere, whence it will be deanonymised and shared with all the wrong people, alternatively they'll eventually share it with insurers despite their words to the contrary etc. But the Register doesn't try to argue that point, so what is their ground for objection exactly?

How long until you have to opt in to get an "optional" covid passport to go to the cinema, get on a train, or send your kids to school?

(I booked my covid shot the minute I became eligible, and I'm happy to have a stamp in my passport saying I've had them - I'm no antivaxer, but I can easily see the government using it as a way to acquire more power)