Fury as Tories team up with Google

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Tory plans to hand medical records over to Google and Microsoft could put personal information at risk, campaigners warned yesterday.

The Conservatives say the internet service will give patients greater freedom over health data, allowing them to check and even edit their NHS record online.

But critics, backed by the British Medical Association, claim the information could be vulnerable to hackers and the plan would make it harder for doctors to access information in an emergency.

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what a completely and utterly insane idea!

i mean it would be good to have such easy access to your records. but to give this info to a corporation?? and to have it on the internet??

madness.