NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal

Found on The Guardian on Tuesday, 10 December 2019
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The material, which excludes patient data, could allow the multinational technology company to make, advertise and sell its own products.

An NHS spokesperson said: “No patient data is being provided to this company by the NHS, which takes data privacy extremely seriously and has put appropriate safeguards in place to ensure information is used correctly.”

For now. First you start with a little step where you can assure that no personal data is handed over, to make people accept such a headline. In another step, you add patient data and the outcry will be small because most people will mix it up with what happened before.