Medical records and consent: a time for change
The UK data regulator’s recent warning to UK insurers to keep within the law
when seeking access to a…
Privacy
There are many dimensions to privacy. Heading up the list of concerns that the public have in relation to insurance are secondary use and consent. Insurers that can understand and manage these two properly will be much better placed to gain the public's trust.
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Insurers’ right to know: a line is drawn
Do insurers have an unimpeded right to see your complete medical record? A UK
regulator has just ruled that they…
Privacy – how to challenge four common myths
There are a growing number of roundtables and conferences about insurance and
big data at the moment. And at some…
A confrontation over insurers’ right to know
The trade body for UK doctors has recently issued revised guidance to its
members about requests from insurers for copies…
Consent: part of the changing landscape of insurance regulation
Consent is a term rarely mentioned in insurance circles, yet it lies at the
heart of every policy sold by…
Please don’t talk about data misuse! …and other ambiguous terms.
The language we use when talking about an ethical situation is important. Words
can sometimes convey more than their simple…
Insurance, data and a politician – a cautionary tale about privacy
One of the privacy issues that the insurance sector will increasingly be
confronted with over the next few years is…
Ethics and Underwriting – Part 4 – will client information be the next great challenge?
Every underwriter relies on having good quality information about its clients in
order to assess the risk they’re presenting.…
The new uncertainties that anonymised data will introduce
In this second post about the ethical issues raised by how insurers are handling anonymised data, we’ll start by…