July 28, 2009 by Matt Thomas
Conservative malcontent, David Davis has hit out at his own party’s plans to move NHS health records onto Google, going so far as to describe the proposed policy as ‘dangerous.’ Davis, who is a former shadow home secretary and stood against current Conservative leader David Cameron at the last leadership election, described the plan as;
“Both dangerous in its own right, and hazardous to the public acceptability of necessary reforms to the state’s handling of our private information.”
Whilst he conceded that people were entitled to a choice about where their health records were kept and that the NHS systems for managing people’s data, were bloated, he described to journalists the moment ‘his heart sank’ at hearing the news of the proposed Google move.
It would appear that the MP has more against this proposal than a simple ideological aversion to people’s right to privacy being curtailed by a private company. It seems he has a specific issue with Google itself, describing the company’s deal with china as ‘amoral’ and their bullish approach to Street View data gathering as ‘high-handed’, before adding, “Google is the last company I would trust with data belonging to me.”
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