Giving Google our private NHS data is simply illegal

Data protection Opinion John Naughton The Royal Free hospital’s attempt to gloss over its transfer of more than a million health records to the AI developer DeepMind is boneheaded and dishonest The private health records of 1.6 million NHS patients are still on the DeepMind servers. Will they be deleted? Photograph: Luca DiCecco/Alamy Data protection Opinion Giving Google our private NHS data is simply illegal John Naughton The Royal Free hospital’s attempt to gloss over its transfer of more than a million health records to the AI developer DeepMind is boneheaded and dishonest In July 2015, consultants working at the Royal Free hospital trust in London approached DeepMind, a Google-owned artificial intelligence firm that had no previous experience in healthcare, about developing software based on patient data from the trust.…


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