Time and time again it"s proven that massive, uncontrolled retention of public data can lead to serious breaches of privacy and trust. And in no other sector can this issue cause more problems than in healthcare, where reams of personally identifiable patient information are subject to hacks and leaks.
With this in mind, Google-owned AI subsidiary DeepMind"s entrance into AI-powered healthcare in 2015 has been lauded as being less a canary in a coalmine, more a bull in a china shop by a new academic report that criticizes DeepMind"s approach to patient privacy in conjunction with the UK"s National Health Service (NHS).
"DeepMind had not built a piece of healthcare software in its entire existence, and so, to have it just be walked over to by physicians and have an entire hospital"s worth of identifiable patient data given to them on trust seems a bit much to me," the paper"s co-author, Hal Hodson, told Motherboard yesterday.
"People are paying attention to this stuff."
It was July 2015 when doctors from the British public hospitals within the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust asked Google"s artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind to develop software that uses NHS patient data. Just four months later, on November 18, the personally identifiable information on 1.6 million NHS patients was in the hands of third-party servers processing data for DeepMind"s initiative—an app for doctors called Streams that should have only required data related to specific patients who were at risk of acute kidney injury.
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