China Catch-All

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Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears
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Researchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data, the Guardian can reveal.

Preparations are under way to transfer the records to UK Biobank, a research hub that holds detailed medical information donated by 500,000 volunteers. One of the world’s largest troves of health data, the facility makes its information available to universities, scientific institutes and private companies. A Guardian analysis shows one in five successful applications for access come from China.


For the past year, health officials had been assessing whether extra safeguards were needed for patient records when added to the genomes, tissue samples and questionnaire responses held by UK Biobank. Personal details such as names and dates of birth are stripped from UK Biobank data before it is shared but experts say that in some cases individuals can still be identified.

MI5, the UK Security Service, has warned that Chinese organisations and individuals granted access to UK data can be ordered by Chinese intelligence agencies “to carry out work on their behalf”. But UK Biobank told the Guardian that the NHS unit responsible for health data had in recent weeks cleared it to grant Chinese researchers access to GP records.

As Keir Starmer’s ministers court Beijing in search of economic growth, the decision avoids crossing a rising superpower that has made biotech prowess a priority. UK-China relations already face tests over the fate of a Chinese-owned steel plant in Scunthorpe and plans for new rules on foreign interference campaigns.

“Security and privacy considerations are always taken into account when UK health data is used to drive forward our understanding of diseases and advance scientific research,” a government spokesperson said. Health data was “only shared with legitimate researchers”, they added.
 
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TikTok hit with €530M fine after illegally sending users’ data to China

Video-sharing app had for years claimed it did not store European personal data on servers in China.
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TikTok hit with €530M fine after illegally sending users’ data to China​

Video-sharing app had for years claimed it did not store European personal data on servers in China.
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But drump is against a US ban on TikTok, correct?

If he's supposedly protecting us from China, his mysterious ways are very hard to follow.
 
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers.


While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.

However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.

Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.

Reuters was unable to determine how many solar power inverters and batteries they have looked at.
 
Bobfripp said:
This is a depressing article. Along with Thomas Friedman's China vs. USA essays, it paints a bleak picture of the USA for the rest of this century.

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But at least we got Guns, Jesus and Fetuses. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Well, it doesn't have to be a permanent loss. We do have to reverse course soon, which means we need to win in 26. Preferably both chambers.

This is what I've been saying for a while. The problem of "globalization" isn't about globalization at all. It's merely exposing America's woefully deficient industrial policy. That's how China has pulled ahead. And let's be honest: it's not just Trump. Conservatives in general have fallen in love with the idea of moving backwards. That's what originalism is all about. I mean, seriously: China is investing in high-tech manufacturing while the Supreme Court of the United States is trying to read tea leaves from 1789 to determine whether the government can actually fund research free from political machinations.

When and if we fade into oblivion, Trump will have been the accelerant. The fuel is coming from everywhere, including our court system.

Note that the EU is in even worse shape when it comes to industrial policy. I will admit I'm no expert on the contours of EU jurisdiction, but my understanding is that the European Commission doesn't have the authority to set industrial policy. That is left to the member nations. Problem: state-by-state industrial policy doesn't mix well with monetary union. In essence, Europe is governed by a federalist system not completely unlike ours, except their version of the federal government (the Commission) is super weak, more like Articles of Confederation (this is more analogy than comparison). And hence Europe has fallen behind China as well.
 
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