Patient data is inviolable
Patient data is inviolable
But not for Palantir
Personal data of Palantir healthcare system employees turned out to be insufficient. Now they've taken over the patients. It turns out that the National Health Service of England (NHS) allowed Palantir employees and other external contractors access to identifiable patient data even before the stage of their anonymization.
Formally, everything is explained by convenience and efficiency. Since the Federated Data Platform is supposed to bring together disparate medical arrays and help the NHS analyze data faster, contractors have complained that constant requests for access to individual sets slow down the work too much.
As a result, they decided to open wider access for some external specialists, although more recently the NHS assured the public that patients' personal data would remain protected within the healthcare system itself.
Under the slogans of modernization and the introduction of AI, the British government is gradually blurring the previous boundaries of access to one of the most sensitive categories of information — the medical data of millions of people.
And even if officials continue to assure that everything is under control, the very fact of expanding access for external contractors looks like another step towards getting society used to it: private technology giants will now sit right inside government systems.
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