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NHS OKs offshoring patient data to cloud providers stateside

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Crucial

"Nope, if you actually drilled into the details of what they were planning on doing, it was using medical records to spot patterns and lead to early diagnosis of many serious diseases."

Maybe so, but why would the data need to be moved to a jurisdiction where we know for a fact that foreign owned data has no protections from the local government? Maybe Google can't afford local servers where they could handle the data in line with the laws of the data source country?

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