Fears raised over Google’s DeepMind deal to use NHS medical data

A British artificial intelligence company has signed a five-year partnership with an NHS Trust to process medical data of its 1.6m patients via a mobile app, a move that academics and privacy advocates describe as “pressing” and “worrying”.
DeepMind, owned by Google, will launch Streams with the Royal Free NHS Trust in early 2017. The app will trigger mobile alerts when a patient’s vital signs or blood results are flagged as abnormal.
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