Against south africa. And Coming Up In World Athletics Sportsday on bbc news. There are more british medal hopes on the fourth day of these championships including laura muir in the 1500 metres final. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. A new law for the digital age thats our top story tonight. Were all spending more time online and whether its for business or pleasure it Means Companies are collecting a vast amount of information about us, some of it quite personal. Now the government is proposing legislation that will give us a right to see what Companies Know about us and in some cases force them to erase it. As our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan Jones reports, the new law would bring the uk in line with the rest of the eu. Your data, a valuable resource flowing around the world giving companies and governments all kinds of intimate details about how you live your life. Now a new law is supposed to give us all more control. The law is an opportunity to keep up wit
of bio-weapons to food supply. alarming stuff. actually, the other issue here with all this medical data that s floating around with people spitting into cups for 23 and me and other companies is that china has a national strategy of gathering this data in huge databases for economic competitive reasons. experts say that the country that controls the most bio-data is most likely to find the cure for diseases and genetic marker for cancer. they will leap ahead in strategic areas. most don t want china to be ahead when it comes to medical advances. do we stop using these? is that the answer? i would not use those things right now. there s no regulation and very little transparency about where they are selling your data, whether it s a chinese or american company. there aren t rules around this stuff.