The company that wants to organise the world’s data needs to respect its users’ privacy, especially if they are patients in the NHS. DeepMind’s cavalier approach needs to be penalised and admonishedThat the Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind obtained the personal medical records of 1.6 million patients on a “legally inappropriate” basis is unnerving. The complacency of both the NHS in north London and Google in the face of basic principles of privacy is remarkable. In her first ever ruling, the national data guardian, Dame Fiona Caldicott, disagreed, saying the transfer was in effect unlawful. It is now up to the information commissioner’s office to decide whether to fine Google’s AI division, the NHS or both.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2017 18:46 UTC