Government plans to share taxpayers' data with private firms were condemned as "borderline insane" by a senior Tory MP. The Guardian reported that the HM Revenue and Customs would be allowed to release anonymised information to third parties.
Conservative former minister David Davis has described a Government proposal to share taxpayers' data with private firms as "borderline insane".
Speaking to the Guardian: "The officials who drew this up clearly have no idea of the risks to data in an electronic age."
"Our forefathers put these checks and balances in place when the information was kept in cardboard files, and data was therefore difficult to appropriate and misuse", Mr Davis.
"It defies logic that we would remove those restraints at a time when data can be collected by the gigabyte, processed in milliseconds and transported around the world almost instantaneously."
The Democratic presidential candidate may also have shown his cards on his choice of running mate.
The US president also shared a post on Twitter accusing Dr Anthony Fauci of misleading the public over hydroxychloroquine.
Fears over an impending second wave of coronavirus dominates Wednesday’s front pages.