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This has of course been Dominic Cummings’s plan for years - you can read about it quite openly on his blog, and on the blog of his friend American physicist/eugenicist Steve Hsu. The point is to allow private industry to capture the health information of private citizens in order to turn Britain into a genetic modification powerhouse- pitched on the basis of fighting genetic diseases, but in fact founded on the anti-…
At this point, if you work at Palantir, you should be very ashamed of yourself and please consider quitting.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surv...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/13/137444/predictiv...
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I actually think that should become a general rule. Way too many US-related titles about things far less well known than the NHS.
NHS in general is way less known than UK citizens think. Especially in Europe where the existence of a national healthcare system is not a religion but a norm.
After reading the article, I think it's quite clear that both Palantir and Google paid someone off to get this contract.
"campaign" donations. Perfectly legal
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NHS in general is way less known than UK citizens think. Especially in Europe where the existence of a national healthcare system is not a religion but a norm.
I hear about NHS extremely often. I’m German
Do German newspapers cover the news about NHS all the time?
This has of course been Dominic Cummings’s plan for years - you can read about it quite openly on his blog, and on the blog of his friend American physicist/eugenicist Steve Hsu. The point is to allow private industry to capture the health information of private citizens in order to turn Britain into a genetic modification powerhouse- pitched on the basis of fighting genetic diseases, but in fact founded on the anti-…
As a UK taxpayer this makes me so angry. The fact this incredibly valuable (not to mention privacy sensitive) data is given away through backroom deals for a pittance without any transparency is just infuriating.
If things like this upset you, you are seriously naive about the operations of your government. As a former Palantir employee, I can say with some confidence that the govt and private company's make efforts to ensure these things remain secret..
As a UK taxpayer this makes me so angry. The fact this incredibly valuable (not to mention privacy sensitive) data is given away through backroom deals for a pittance without any transparency is just infuriating.
I live in the US and used to build products to deal with sensitive healthcare data. I recall talking to an Important Person from the NHS, years ago, who proudly told me that the NHS could do things with its healthcare data that US companies could not- without having to deal with things like HIPAA, etc. I told them that while they might be able to do that, it would probably make a bunch of people mad if they weren't t…
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That might be good advice in general, but I don't think that works with medical data. If I get hurt and end up in a hospital, how would the surgeons decrypt my hard drive to find my medical history if I'm unconscious? Obviously I need to entrust this data to somebody. Edit: Not being a doctor, it's difficult for me to anticipate what sort of information doctors would consider relevant. Certainly there are some easy c…
I'm willing the accept the 5% extra chance of death entailed by some emergency doctor not knowing my medical history. If I have something crucial, like an allergy to medication, I guess I'd just get that tattooed somewhere obvious. In the vast majority of emergency cases for the vast majority of patients, I don't think one's medical history is going to be a significant factor in getting them out of the woods far enou…