Summary
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the Data Protection Act when it provided patient details to Google DeepMind.
The Trust provided personal data of around 1.6 million patients as part of a trial to test an alert, diagnosis and detection system for acute kidney injury. An ICO investigation found several shortcomings in how the data was handled, including that patients were not adequately informed that their data would be used as part of the test.
The Trust has been asked to commit to changes ensuring it is acting in line with the law by signing an undertaking.
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Following the ICO investigation, the Trust has been asked to:
- Establish a proper legal basis under the Data Protection Act for the Google DeepMind project and for any future trials
- Set out how it will comply with its duty of confidence to patients in any future trial involving personal data
- Complete a privacy impact assessment, including specific steps to ensure transparency
- Commission an audit of the trial, the results of which will be shared with the Information Commissioner, and which the Commissioner will have the right to publish as she sees appropriate.
ICO: Royal Free – Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection law (July 2017)
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