Attendees pass by an Alibaba.com display at CES 2019 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas on Jan. 8, 2019. David Becker/Getty ImagesThe UK government has paused researcher downloads from the UK Biobank after de-identified participant data was advertised for sale on Alibaba-linked e-commerce platforms in China.The incident prompted a security review and renewed scrutiny of protections surrounding one of the world’s largest biomedical research databases.
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