Five NHS trusts do DeepMind data deal with Google. One says no
Found on The Register on Friday, 20 September 2019
The agreement is controversial because DeepMind was handed 1.6 million patient health records by the Royal Free Hospital despite no patient having given their consent for their data to be shared or used in this way.
One of Google's first actions on borging DeepMind was to shut its independent ethics review panel.
"Handing 1.5m patients' records to Google was justified in 2015 as the only option – has the NHS under Matt Hancock made no progress on NHS tech?"
So saying "no" was not an option? Sorry, but nobody will believe that. Especially not the millions of people who now have their most personal information shared with Alphabet.