The people involved are volunteers. The rules for getting access are readily available, and clearly don't include "some random university student": https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-work/access-to-u...
replyThey clearly do include "some random student" as the data can be shared with others from the eligible research group which are almost always university students who have zero clue about itsec.
replyI worked in this field. It's not just the students. Hardly anyone seemed to understand how and why you would keep data out of a git repo.
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