Trust us, we're an advertising company masquerading...
as a tech company... At the very least Google should be forced to make a statement about what it intends to do with the data it mines.... That can't just be left blank...
Google: Trust us with NHS AI
The cofounder of Google's artificial intelligence company DeepMind has responded to widespread concerns that the biz is being granted access to more than a million people's private healthcare records in the UK. Mustafa Suleyman reckons his company is highly qualified to look after the information given Google's long history of …
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Saturday 7th May 2016 07:58 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
"Suleyman stressed that the contract signed between DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust prevented the data from being shared with other parts of Google and that it is required to delete its copy of the database when the agreement ends"
Yeah, right. Everything in Google's own cloud*, but not shared. Everything deleted, except for that odd backup someone forgot.
He did not say what would happen to the extremely valuable intelligence built up through analysis of that data, however.
It will be used to further mankind, of course. Which from Google's point of view means monetizing it via it's advertising business.
(* Would that qualify as a private cloud in this context, btw?)
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Saturday 7th May 2016 16:39 GMT inmypjs
What backup program doesn't have an encryption option?
The one google built into android which by default backs up every single bit of information to google servers.
If they had any respect for personal privacy they would at least provide an option to protect it.
That is reason enough to not trust any part of google with anything.
"As Googlers, we have the very best privacy and secure infrastructure" - you couldn't make it up.
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Saturday 7th May 2016 19:29 GMT Steve Channell
Surprised they can afford to pay for it!
Really expensive projects like going to the moon, sequencing the human genome, mass observation of clinical data are so highly expensive that for-profit simply can't afford it.
Here in the UK, the NHS owns the clinical data and the NPfIT billions can only be justified by the value of information.. Surprising this massive fee didn't get into the budget statement from the treasury.
In a parallel universe where managers are numpties, they got pennies
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Sunday 8th May 2016 16:01 GMT zen1
I'm sorry, but...
Am I the only one who found the whole second paragraph entirely laughable, insulting, as well as a complete and total lie.
Any government department head, minister, director or secretary that would suggest, let alone authorizes google access to that much deeply sensitive and incredibly private information, should be fired.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
