Google ‘betrays patient trust’ with DeepMind Health move. Earlier this week, it was announced that Google will be
merging DeepMind into the main arm of the organisation - potentially breaking its promise that the healthcare ‘data will not be connected to Google accounts’. The giant claims the move is so they can globally scale their healthcare offering, and has abolished the independent review boards.
Alongside partnering with the NHS for the controversial Streams app, DeepMind also partnered with
ten UK hospitals to process medical data, which will now also ‘fall under the remit of California-based Google Health’.
Forget Facebook, mysterious data brokers are facing GDPR trouble. Privacy International have
published a series of requests for the ICO to further investigate how data brokers are profiting from holding masses of personal data, in a way that infringes privacy and data protection laws.
The group put together their case by extensively reading online information and marketing collateral, and the companies so far deny the acquisitions. Read the
full requests here.
Data protection rules ‘put companies off acquisitions’. A new report by Merrill Corporation warns that the EU’s new
data protection laws are stifling M&A dealmaking. The report finds 66% of respondents think GDPR has increased ‘acquirers’ scrutiny of target companies’ data protection policies and processes’, leaving them to back out -
54% of lawyers and others involved in dealmaking said that since implementation they had already worked on transactions that had been ditched because of concerns around a target’s data protection policies and compliance with Brussels’s new rules.
