Ok, good job. But you’re talking about UK law. I'd love to say, Oh yeah, I knew all about that. But it's much simpler that that. It’s not even an issue in the UK, not because of any data protection act, but because you have no medical insurance premiums to worry about. You have NHS. That was my original point, if you check.
I would love to go off on America today, but why waste the space here. You can find my posts, in total agreement with you, on other topics. The US is rapidly going the way of the Roman City State—too impressed with itself and too willing to relegate reason and rights to an inferior position to power and killing.
The recent vote on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was to give indemnity to criminal telephone companies, which had conspired with the GWB administration to violate every known privacy right by handing over to the government every known piece of datum about your communications.
And you are in it up to your neck, UK citizen or not, because it involves every piece of communication that entered US facilities for any reason…did you know that most calls London makes to Sheffield go through a switch in Boston, calls the UK makes to Spain go thru switches located in New Jersey, most calls from France to South Africa through Atlanta, GA? That is because the greatest number of switches in the world are here in the US, and worldwide calls are routed by computer to go to the machinery with the least traffic congestion...um, that would be the US.
Does that piss you off? Tell your lap-dog government to tell GWB that you're "madder than Hell and not gonna take it any more."
That and five-bucks will get you a latte at Starbucks.
And of course you’re talking to me here in San Francisco, so everything you say on FF is being monitored. One of the greatest switches for the kiwis, the ozzies, China, Asia and the Philippines, is in a brick building on Lombard Street here in San Francisco. It the focal point for the largest lawsuit in the US, which our friendly traitor Barack Obama voted to give immunity to (AT&T) in his latest vote on FISA.
Well, we started talking about medical records and now we're talking about telecommunications traffic. I hear you. But, ask yourself, have yours or anyone's medical records ever gone over the Internet? Any doctor discussed a patient with another doctor over the telephone? Working in a hospital, you tell us.
Well, I went off anyway.
F***! 
