The UK introduced the free-standing (‘sui generis’) EU database right in 1997. This right gives protection to a maker of a database, where a substantial investment has been made in either obtaining, ...

A group of privacy and security experts has charted the proliferation of U.K. government databases and concluded that some of them could be illegal. The Foundation for Information Policy Research ...

Policing minister Chris Philp has outlined his intention to give police forces access to the UK’s passport database, claiming it will enhance their facial-recognition capabilities to help catch ...

The value of audits and Big Data in ophthalmology continues to increase. Ophthalmic databases have been in use in different health systems for a while now. In the UK, electronic medical record (EMR) ...