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Stephen Downes

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A couple of weeks ago I linked to a story about an 'uber for nurses'. Today we have the inevitable result of putting essential public services into an unregulated app marketplace: "More than 86,000 records containing nurses' medical records, facial images, ID documents and more sensitive info linked to health tech company ESHYFT was left sitting in a wide-open S3 bucket for months."

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