logoalt Hacker News

SilverElfintoday at 3:08 AM1 replyview on HN

That’s insane. And what does researcher even mean - some random university student? What would they know about securing that data? I wonder if the people whose data is out there even know this is happening


Replies

7beestoday at 3:57 AM

The people involved are volunteers. The rules for getting access are readily available, and clearly don't include "some random university student": https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-work/access-to-u...

show 1 reply