Reply to post: Re: Streams is showing real patient benefits.

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

Tom 38

Re: Streams is showing real patient benefits.

"the company has no obligation whatsoever" - apart from the law, the contract they signed, etc etc..

So, this article is about them not following their contract. They were supposed to use the data to train and discard it. They are now running a service using that data.

Ignore whether it is a good or a bad thing; evidently they are not following their contract now so what happens in the future?

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