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[UK] NHS patients' data was illegally transferred to Google DeepMind.
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NHS patients' data was illegally transferred to Google DeepMind.

'The data watchdog says that patients' data should not have been given to Google with so
little oversight and planning.The transfer of 1.6 million NHS patients' personally identifying data
to Google was illegal, according to the UK's data watchdog.

The Royal Free NHS Trust gave the data to Google DeepMind, the artificial intelligence arm of
Google, for the purpose of testing a smartphone app called Streams - and did so without
requesting the patients' permission.

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The Royal Free NHS Trust in north London.

In doing so it "failed to comply with the Data Protection Act" the Information Commissioner's
Office (ICO) ruled today, following the conclusion of a long investigation into the deal.

Data belonging to a 1.6 million patients, some of whom had simply attended A&E within the last
five years, was given to Google to test a smartphone app which could detect acute kidney injuries
(AKIs).

The watchdog stated that those patients did not consent to the transfer, and that the justification
offered by Royal Free and DeepMind was unlawful.

Although the regulator has the power to issue monetary penalties of hundreds of thousands of pounds,
it chose to recognise a dearth of guidance from the Department of Health in demanding that Royal
Free commit to make changes to address its shortcomings.

Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, said that while there was "huge potential" in the use
of patient data to deliver clinical improvements, "the price of innovation does not need to be the erosion
of fundamental privacy rights".

The ruling follows a Sky News investigation in May which revealed that the most senior data protection
adviser to the NHS, Dame Fiona Caldicott, had warned the ICO that patients' data had been transferred
to Google on an "inappropriate legal basis"...'
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They don't want your name... just your number.


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I never thought putting patient info on a computer was a good thing from the beginning.  It's just a way for the "deep state" to see who is still healthy enough to keep around for slave labor, and who is ready to be killed off, should we ever go to Martial Law. 

And, if anything happens to the grid... there goes all our information. tinyok
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(07-03-2017, 06:15 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: I never thought putting patient info on a computer was a good thing from the beginning...

Oh Mystic, how the hell can you improve global organ-selling if you don't know whether the farm
animals patients have those viable parts needed?!
This is to be professionally ran.
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