In 2015 the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust gave Google’s AI division, DeepMind, access to the personal medical records of 1.6 million patients.
In 2017 the ICO said the NHS Trust “had not done enough to protect the privacy of patients when it shared data with Google”.
Now a legal case has been started on behalf of those people whose information had been shared.
DeepMind faces legal action over NHS data use – BBC News
Privacy is something that is difficult to define – try and find a definition for privacy in the Data Protection Act – and difficult to keep in today’s connected, sharing always on society.
Bus do not feel comfortable when they tell you, that your private data they shared is anonymised. Data mining and AI techniques can determine patterns and trends in large amounts of unrelated data that can reveal identities (Porter, 2008).
Clive Catton MSc (Cybersecurity) – by-line and more articles
References
Porter, C. C. (2008). De-identified data and third party data mining: the risk of re-identification of personal information. Shidler JL Com. & Tech., 5, 1.
