{"id":1004712,"date":"2026-04-25T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004712"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:40:16","slug":"uk-investigates-after-big-health-dataset-listed-for-sale-on-chinas-alibaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/uk-investigates-after-big-health-dataset-listed-for-sale-on-chinas-alibaba\/","title":{"rendered":"UK investigates after big health dataset listed for sale on China&#8217;s Alibaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is investigating how data from a health charity came to be advertised for sale on China&#8217;s Alibaba, a government minister said on Thursday, including one dataset that appeared to contain information from 500,000 people. <\/p>\n<p>Science minister Ian Murray told lawmakers that the charity, UK Biobank, had \u200cinformed the \u2060government on \u2060Monday that its data appeared to have been advertised for sale in three different listings by several sellers in China on Alibaba&#8217;s e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is investigating how data from a health charity came to be advertised for sale on China&#8217;s Alibaba, a government minister said on Thursday, including one dataset that appeared to contain information from 500,000 people. Science minister Ian Murray told lawmakers that the charity, UK Biobank, had \u200cinformed the \u2060government on \u2060Monday that its data appeared to have been advertised for sale in three different listings by several sellers in China on Alibaba&#8217;s e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004734,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004712\/revisions\/1004734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}