UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub
— days since last takedown! UK Biobank
holds genetic, health, and lifestyle data on half a million British volunteers. It has given 20,000 researchers around the world access under strict agreements that prohibit sharing data further.
And yet, researchers are repeatedly uploading participant data by mistake to public GitHub repositories.
According to The Guardian, UK Biobank has been closely monitoring the situation, contacting researchers directly then issuing takedown notices when repositor...
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