Covid results emails may breach GDPR

Tom Allen
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Messages from the Department of Health and Social Care contain personally identifiable information, warns Kuan Hon

Free, rapid lateral flow tests for coronavirus are now available in England, but the government notifications confirming the results appear to contravene several articles of the GDPR. All result...

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