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posted on 6/6/2020 08:33F**k me, how shady is this Government? - Snout
Good news that they've released the NHS data contracts - but only under legal pressure, hours before their hand was going to be forced. Still awaiting the DPIAs, I believe. Regardless, the contracts show that concerned parties were right to mistrust the government.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/en/under-pressure-uk-government-releases-nhs-covid-data-deals-big-tech/
Significantly, the contracts reveal that the Dominic Cummings-linked firm Faculty is being paid more than £1m to provide AI services for the NHS. The documents also show that terms of that deal were changed after initial demands for transparency were made by Foxglove under the Freedom of Information Act.
The contracts show that companies involved in the NHS datastore project, including Faculty and Palantir, were originally granted intellectual property rights (including the creation of databases), and were allowed to train their models and profit off their unprecedented access to NHS data.
[... in March] the NHS stressed that “essential data governance procedures and established principles of openness and transparency remain at the core of everything we do”; that the data collected “will only be used for COVID-19”; and that “only relevant information will be collected.”
- SS24 playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dbGZi14fKkDLFwEtXMeeW?si=vDWz9bFIRHaizaBqa2dlPA&pi=fFPiuIwSSoyYX -
http://www.opendemocracy.net/en/under-pressure-uk-government-releases-nhs-covid-data-deals-big-tech/
Significantly, the contracts reveal that the Dominic Cummings-linked firm Faculty is being paid more than £1m to provide AI services for the NHS. The documents also show that terms of that deal were changed after initial demands for transparency were made by Foxglove under the Freedom of Information Act.
The contracts show that companies involved in the NHS datastore project, including Faculty and Palantir, were originally granted intellectual property rights (including the creation of databases), and were allowed to train their models and profit off their unprecedented access to NHS data.
[... in March] the NHS stressed that “essential data governance procedures and established principles of openness and transparency remain at the core of everything we do”; that the data collected “will only be used for COVID-19”; and that “only relevant information will be collected.”
- SS24 playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dbGZi14fKkDLFwEtXMeeW?si=vDWz9bFIRHaizaBqa2dlPA&pi=fFPiuIwSSoyYX -
- **** me, how shady is this Government? - Snout 6/6 08:33 (read 5791 times, 5 posts in thread)
- Not shady, you know what you get with tories, lies and corruption ... - EmCee 6/6 10:25 (read 5165 times)
- Shady as ****. Who'd trust Palantir? - Gramsci. 6/6 09:36 (read 5108 times)
- Re: meanwhile *no* DPIA carried out on Test&Trace system - Snout 6/6 08:45 (read 5322 times)
- "Dido - Queen of Carnage" - how appropriate - Gramsci. 6/6 11:00 (read 5096 times)