Privacy advocates sound the alarm after #google grabs DeepMind UK health app

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DeepMind Health: under new management.

Google has stoked fears in the UK regarding its access to private medical data after the decision was made to transfer part of its London health operation to US hands.

The company’s London-based AI lab DeepMind announced yesterday that its DeepMind Health unit would be absorbed by Google Health. DeepMind Health is responsible for a range of health care projects in the UK, including the Streams app, which is used by a small number of doctors and nurses working in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

The creation of the app was controversial. Last year, the UK government ruled that DeepMind had gained inappropriate access to medical data from 1.6 million patients when developing Streams. In response, DeepMind Health redrew its…

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