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Are you seriously trying to suggest medical charities and trusts should be exempt from client data protection?

The only 'culture war' here is the one you are introducing.




No, that's not what I'm saying. I made my point clumsily though, admittedly.

I'm saying for the relatively few fines that have been issued in the UK, a surprising number have been aimed at targets of the culture war of the day and that that's noteworthy.


> aimed at targets of the culture war

Data relating to medical records and sexuality is noted by the GDPR as (quite rightly) being particularly sensitive and worthy of extra protection.

Your use of the troll bait term "culture war" attempts to belie this.


I'm definitely not trying to bait, or troll anyone. I apologise if that's how it's coming across.

I found the proportion of the fines aimed at a particular group of organisations noteworthy; especially specific organisations that are already under intense scrutiny in the UK media.


The implication here is that this stands out because others haven't been fined. I'm not up to date enough on UK privacy violations to be able to tell whether that is the case.

Charities have to obey privacy law the same as anybody else regardless of what they stand for. It seems the fines were perfectly justified and I see no problem with that.

That said, pretending there is not a deliberate "culture war" around the existence of trans people in the UK is either dishonest or ignorant. UK politics, politicians and media have been extremely hostile towards trans people in recent years even relative to the general attitude of the general population in the UK. The level of artificial moral panic surrounding trans people in UK politics and media is surprising even by American standards. There are a number of astroturfed anti-trans groups present in English-speaking media but the most effective ones are all UK-centric.

The fines, however, seem to be orthogonal to that.




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