On 1 July, the National Health Service (NHS), Britain’s healthcare system that deals with the overwhelming majority of UK patients, will start pooling primary care records in England to make them accessible to third parties. This will involve data about…
Month: May 2021
UK economy on the brink as Bank of England prepares for a public digital currency
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has appointed a task force that will investigate the possibility of setting up a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as Britain’s response to the rise of Bitcoin and other forms of electronic money.…
Covid vaccine IP waiver is just the start: intellectual property is (mainly) theft
The US Administration announced on 5 May that it supports waiving intellectual property (IP) protections for Covid-19 vaccines. “These extraordinary times and circumstances call for extraordinary measures,” US trade ambassador Katherine Tai said. More than 100 developing countries have called on…