Private medical data donated to UK Biobank is touted for sale on a Chinese website

Confidential medical data donated by half a million British volunteers to the UK Biobank project has been put up for sale on a Chinese website. Also: President Trump tells the BBC Sir Keir Starmer can recover his popularity, but only if he's more robust about immigration and opens up the North Sea for more oil drilling. And the virtuoso pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, has died at the age of 101.

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Private medical data donated to UK Biobank is touted for sale on a Chinese website is an episode from Six O'Clock News by BBC.

This episode is 30:49 long.

This episode was published on Apr 23, 2026.

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