From PC Magazine: The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust gave Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence program data on 1.6 million patients without proper consent, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found.
A year-long investigation found that patients were not adequately informed that medical data would be used as part of a trial of Streams, a mobile app designed to help with the real-time detection of acute kidney injury (AKI).
This breaks parts of Schedules 2 and 3 of the 1998 Data Protection Act, which require subjects to explicitly opt in to their personal data being used for any means and for that consent to be obtained. Because patients were unaware that data had been processed, they were unable to exercise their rights to opt out of the trial.
Additionally, while data was encrypted, the Commissioner found that Royal Free London had not ensured that the mobile devices used in the trial were properly secured, presenting a possible attack vector for hackers.
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