UK gave Google's DeepMind access to patient data without legal basis

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: May 16, 2017 at 11:03:33 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] UK gave Google's DeepMind access to patient data without legal basis
>
>
> UK gave Google's DeepMind access to patient data without legal basis
>
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/google-collected-nhs-patient-records-on-inappropriate-legal-basis/
>
>      Google's DeepMind AI wing was given access to the personal
>    medical records of 1.6 million NHS patients on an
>    "inappropriate legal basis," the UK's top data protection
>    adviser to the health service has said.  In a letter sent to
>    the Royal Free Hospital's medical director professor Stephen
>    Powis, and seen by Sky News, the National Data Guardian Dame
>    Fiona Caldicott--whose job it is to scrutinise the government
>    when it hands over NHS patient records to private
>    companies--concluded that the decision to share the data under
>    implied consent was wrong.
>
> - - -
>
> Any screw-ups with patient data sharing -- even if only relating to
> clear and full disclosure to patients -- must be avoided at all costs.
> It is extremely easy to "poison the well" of trust in this area.
>
> --Lauren--



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