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Daily Record
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National
Hannah Rodger

NHS board's £15,000 a year to social media monitoring firm to spy on patients

A crisis-hit health board caught spying on patients is paying £15,000 a year to a private firm linked to the disgraced Cambridge Analytica company.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board is giving US firm Meltwater public money for its investigation software, which was used to monitor widow Louise Slorance and her dead husband Andrew. We can reveal the social media monitoring firm Meltwater invested in a company owned by disgraced Cambridge University scientist Alex Kogan, who harvested personal information from 87million Facebook users without their consent.

Louise, who has been fighting to get answers about Andrew’s death, said the health board had to be axed following our new revelations.

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