Coronavirus - Take two - Action!

[Ninurta]

Indeed, they do appear to be. Since they were not explicitly testing for customer DNA, but a covid infection instead, that should be blatantly illegal to hijack ancillary customer data without express informed consent.

There should be severe repercussions.

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Unless permission is hidden in that near 5,000 word consent they had them sign.

Instead, they were reportedly asked to tick a box agreeing to a 4,876-word privacy policy, which links to another document outlining its "research programme". Typically, analysis of sensitive medical information can only be carried out with explicit
informed consent.

I know that's how they frequently do business, but it's not really an "informed" consent, and I believe could be fought against in court - no one is going to read a small book just to have someone else scrape their brain through their nose with a cotton swab.

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