NHS patients' data illegally given to Google news.sky.com
The transfer of 1.6 million NHS patients' personally identifying data to Google was illegal, according to the UK's data watchdog.
The Royal Free NHS Trust gave the data to Google DeepMind, the artificial intelligence arm of Google, for the purpose of testing a smartphone app called Streams – and did so without requesting the patients' permission.
In doing so it "failed to comply with the Data Protection Act" the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ruled today, following the conclusion of a long investigation into the deal.
Data belonging to a 1.6 million patients, some of whom had simply attended A&E within the last five years, was given to Google to test a smartphone app which could detect acute kidney injuries (AKIs).
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