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UK Government’s COVID-19 Responses Uses Private Patient Data

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the UK government has embarked on a data-mining operation that has confidential patient information being processed by technology firms. So reports The Guardian.

covid 19 4922384 640smallAccording to documents viewed by the newspaper, sensitive government databases are being consolidated through a collaboration between Palantir, the U.S. firm founded by conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, and UK artificial intelligence startup Faculty.

A spokesperson for the National Health Service said that the firms “do not control the data and are not permitted to use or share it for their own purposes.”

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