NHS and Google fall foul of UK data protection rules

An NHS Trust has found itself on the wrong side of the law after a twelve-month investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office of its joint-initiative with Google Deepmind.
The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with data protection policies in the UK, as it passed details of 1.6 million patient as part of a trial to test an alert, diagnosis and detection system for acute kidney injury. The data was to be used to create an app called ‘Streams’, and wa