Google's DeepMind subsidiary has been working with the National Health Service in the UK, but part of its work may not have been fully legal. A leaked letter from the UK's National Data Guardian claims DeepHealth's access to data on 1.6 million patients had an "inappropriate legal basis."
DeepHealth was accessing patient data in order to train artificial intelligence. There's now an ongoing investigation of the deal from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which says it's close to finishing.
The app in question, Streams, has already left its testing phase and is being used at some medical institutions in the UK. This investigation is targeting Streams' development rather than its current implementation.
DeepMind says the data it had access to when training Streams "has never been used for commercial purposes or combined with Google products, services or ads - and never will be."
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