Patients' privacy was not
protected properly when a hospital in the United Kingdom shared their
data with Google, the UK's Information Commission (ICO) has ruled. The case effects
1.6 million patients' data that the UK government shared with the Google DeepMind
division. The data was handed over in an early stage of an app test last
year to develop and refine an alert, diagnosis and detection system that
can spot when patients are at risk of developing acute kidney injury. ICO ruled
that the hospital did not properly inform patients about how their medical
data will be handled.
Tech & Rights
Google DeepMind App Test Broke UK Privacy Law
Patients' privacy was not protected properly when a hospital in the United Kingdom shared their data with Google, the UK's Information Commission (ICO) has ruled. The case effects 1.6 million patients' data that the...
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