There is no evidence of a deliberate attempt to bury the grim home-building figures, but it is a shame that Parliamentary debate of the housing strategy on Monday was denied the most recent information and that the sequence of events risks further damaging trust in the way politicians treat our national statistics.
As we move to electronic health records and potentially a world where there is much more health data in the form of DNA sequence and other information, I wonder how important privacy and secrecy really are.
The EMBL researchers claimed in a press release that no personally-identifying information on Lacks or her progeny could be gained from making the sequence public.