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Trust without safeguards: why UK Biobank is the outlier among our data services

bmj · 2026-07-07 · canonical JSON source

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The debate around leaked data from UK Biobank1 risks focusing on the wrong question. The issue is not whether health data can generate public benefit; it clearly can. The issue is whether organisations can claim to operate secure research environments without demonstrating the governance maturity that such claims imply.