The National Health Service (NHS) of England has decided to delay by six months the sale of personal medical records.
The decision comes after consumer groups SumOfUs.org and 38 Degrees organized more than 251,000 people and more than 17,000 medical professionals to oppose the sale of those records.
A recent poll commissioned by SumOfUs.org found that 65% of the British public was against the proposed sale of their personal medical records to corporations.
In a prepared statement, Martin Campbell from SumOfUs.org said the NHS' decision is a "huge win for privacy," adding that the proposal from NHS was "unacceptable to hundreds of thousands of SumofUs members and to millions of English NHS patients."
