A large Covid-19 testing provider is being investigated by the UK’s data privacy watchdog over its plans to sell swabs containing customers’ DNA for medical research.
Cignpost Diagnostics, a government-approved supplier trading as ExpressTest, said it intended to analyse the samples to “learn more about human health”, to develop drugs and products or to sell information to third parties, company documents show.
Analysis of sensitive medical data can typically be carried out only with explicit informed consent. But customers booking tests through expresstest.co.uk were not clearly told their data would be used for purposes beyond Covid-19 testing. Instead they were asked to tick a box agreeing to a 4,876-word privacy policy, which links to another document outlining its “research programme”.
It is not clear how many samples have been stored by Cignpost or whether they have been sold or used for any research so far, but the policy says that data belonging to all those providing a swab is retained indefinitely. There is no minimum age set out in the research document, suggesting children are included.
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To the government Covid-19 is big money and control of the people knowing well they have nothing to control the virus
The tests are not set at the right number to actually anything except register a false positive. Part of the scam plan.
To date no one at any of these "Testing Stations" have been capable of answering the simple question of, "is this test specifically for the Covid-19 Virus, or will it show Positive for the presence of Any Virus Present, Dead or Alive?" Neither have the manufacturers of the "Tests" contacted. Of what use are the "Tests?"
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
Doesn't surprise me in the least! The whole covid thing is a hoax
You are joking, they couldn't do that for profit!
I wish that I was joking!