Google sued over NHS data

It all over the use of confidential medical records belonging to 1.6 million people in the UK

I’m Paul Hutton with news that Google is being sued over its use of confidential medical records belonging to 1.6 million people in the UK. The company's artificial intelligence arm, DeepMind, received the data in 2015 from the Royal Free NHS Trust in London for the purpose of testing a smartphone app called Streams. Sky News reports the claim alleges that Google and DeepMind "obtained and used a substantial number of confidential medical records without patients' knowledge or consent". We’ll keep up to date on this and other stories, here on Care Radio… 

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