Agreement with the Royal Free NHS Trust doesn’t give option to opt-out
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MORE THAN ONE MILLION PATIENT RECORDS will be accessible by Google’s AI outfit DeepMind, after an agreement was made with the Royal Free NHS Trust. The agreement, first seen by the New Scientist, between the human-crushing AI company and the NHS trust, which oversees Barnet, Chase Farm and the Royal Free hospitals, means that the DeepMind holds data on NHS patients who are HIV-positive, for example, as well as those who have had abortions or drug overdoses.
Back in February, DeepMind said it would be working with the NHS to build an app called Streams. The purpose of the app was to help hospital staff monitor patients with kidney disease, but the agreement suggests that other information will also be slurped up by DeepMind.
Despite the document stating that Google cannot use the data in any other part of its business, privacy campaigners will be wary of the access that online information giant Google potentially has to this data, which includes logs of hospital activity and results of various pathology and radiology tests. Read more
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