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Google DeepMind's use of 1.6m Brits' medical records to test app was 'legally inappropriate'

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Re: 'inappropriate' or 'illegal'?

Exactly - as AC says below, stop the pussyfooting. Was it illegal for the hospital to give Google 'identifiable patient records'? Or was it illegal for Google to then use those records beyond its remit? Or both?

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