The Information Commissioner’s Office is conducting an investigation on the deal between Google’s AI firm DeepMind and London-based Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust following a public complaint, Computer Weekly reports. The agreement allows DeepMind to access health care records of 1.6 million patients in three North London hospitals, prompting concerns that sensitive health information —including HIV statuses or drug overdoses — could be exposed. The complaint sent to the ICO centered on DeepMind encrypting the data when not in use. “Whilst the information-sharing agreement insists that personally identifiable information — such as name, address, post code, NHS number, date of birth, telephone number, and email addresses, etc. — must be encrypted whilst in transit to Google, it does not explicitly prohibit that data being unencrypted at the non–NHS location,” the complaint read. Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust announced earlier this week that they’ll honor opt-outs of the data-sharing deal.
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