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Palantir to be granted ‘unlimited access’ to NHS patient data (www.digitalhealth.net)
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The NHS is granting staff from companies including Palantir ‘unlimited access’ to identifiable patient data while working on its FDP.

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[–] 48 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wtf there is literally zero upside to this

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    • [–] 37 points 5 months ago

    Oh great. And no possible way to opt out of this either, aside from having never used the NHS - which for the average UK citizen is borderline impossible.

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    [–] 21 points 5 months ago

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Why?

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Because New Labour hates British citizens and thinks they're disgusting little worms who are only worthy of contempt.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    It would be the same under any government.
    They already did stuff like that and gave NHS patient files to USSA companies.
    After all, the UK is part of the 5 eyes.
    The inner circle of the western imperialist scumbaggery.

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    • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Can citizens who's data was given in an unlimited fashion to Palantir get unlimited access to Palantir funds? So long as we spend some funds to pay legal obligations like salaries we could treat their funds the same way they treat our data, how ever the fuck we want.

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This headline sounds like the start of a decent Bond film.

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    • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The article glaringly lacks saying why

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The NHS has a wealth of data which makes conducting studies across large population groups possible. For example Dexamethasone as a treatment for COVID was identified thanks to having access to a medical history and outcome data across the NHS.

    Even so there has not historically been a unified data storage solution as information is split between GPs and individual hospital trusts. Previous attempts to have a single system failed due to complexity and cost overruns. The current solution is the federated data platform (FDP): https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/ which attempts to interoperate with multiple primary data sources to help clinicians access patient records as well as help with resource and service planning.

    I assume the Palentir system is involved with providing some sort of AI insights into that data store.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Obviously bad but wasn't this a breaking news story from several days ago? What's new?

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