Anonymous20 days ago
An investigation has revealed that health data from the UK Biobank — one of the world's most important biomedical research databases containing records on 500,000 volunteers — was accidentally posted online by researchers on multiple occasions, prompting roughly 80 legal takedown notices to GitHub in the second half of 2025 alone. The exposures, combined with a separate controversy over data sharing with insurance companies and claims by an extremist 'race science' network of unauthorized access, have triggered a broader crisis of trust around the governance of the biobank that underpins thousands of medical studies worldwide.