The “story” about Temple Streets Hospital blood sample/DNA database that started at the end of December 2009 just keeps on getting bigger. I blogged about this in December and January and had contact with Mark Tighe, Temple Street Hospital & the Data Protection commissioner. The facts were clear and simple: The fact that Temple Street [...]
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This DNA database “thing” is only getting bigger….
Posted: March 1, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: database, dna, evert bopp, privacy, temple street
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DNA database, the story grows.
Posted: January 14, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: dna, evert bopp, hse, privacy, temple street
I recently wrote about the discovery that (since 1984) Temple Street hospital had retained all newborn bloodsamples submitted to it for the purpose of the PKU/heelprick tests. That means that they have a database of people born in Ireland since 1984! This is an estimated 1.54 million people. This was all following an article in [...]
Temple Street Hospital & illegal retention of DNA/blood samples.
Posted: December 31, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: dna, dpc, evert bopp, privacy, temple street
I came across this article in last weekends Sunday Times newspaper. The article outlines how Dublin’s Temple Street Hospital has: “built a database containing the DNA of almost every person born in the country since 1984 without their knowledge in an apparent breach of data protection laws”. What has happened is that the hospital: “amassed [...]
