Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 24/04/2026UK Biobank data was on sale on Alibaba. It was also exposed 197 times in a year, according to my investigations. I talked to The Telegraph about this case: “it’s quite easy still, at the moment, to find UK Biobank data that is there, uploaded, often by mistake, by researchers around the world”. 110
Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 24/04/2026On my website, you can track all 197 legal takedown notices that UK Biobank sent to GitHub: biobank.rocher.lc Many of these files are still available online. UK Biobank knows where. It's time to take these down too.biobank.rocher.lcUK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHubTracking DMCA takedown notices filed by UK Biobank against GitHub repositories where researchers accidentally published participant health data. 110