Patients' medical records go online without consent

From Telegraph.co.uk (March 9):

Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors’ leaders have warned.

Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion [$16.47 billion] computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities.

But doctors have accused the [British] Government of rushing the project through, meaning that patients have had their details uploaded to the database before they have had a chance to object.

The scheme, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will eventually hold the private records of more than 50 million patients. [read more]

The article goes to say the database is not hacker proof. What else is new. I read somewhere that 1 in 3 businesses in the US don't use firewalls. It's probably worse than that for the gov't.

That kind of database would eventually come to America if ObamaCare is passed.