That’s insane. And what does researcher even mean - some random university student? What would they know about securing that data? I wonder if the people whose data is out there even know this is happening
That’s insane. And what does researcher even mean - some random university student? What would they know about securing that data? I wonder if the people whose data is out there even know this is happening
The people involved are volunteers. The rules for getting access are readily available, and clearly don't include "some random university student": https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-work/access-to-u...
They clearly do include "some random student" as the data can be shared with others from the eligible research group which are almost always university students who have zero clue about itsec.
I worked in this field. It's not just the students. Hardly anyone seemed to understand how and why you would keep data out of a git repo.