Google’s AI subsidiary was given ‘legally inappropriate’ access to UK medical data

Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind has come under fire again for its partnership with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). According to a leaked letter from the government’s top data advisor, the company’s deal to train a new medical app using health data from 1.6 million NHS patients was conducted on an "inappropriate legal basis.”
The letter, sent by the UK’s National Data Guardian (NDG), was published by Sky News this week, and will inform an ongoing invest