The development of a UK Health Data Research Service (HDRS), backed by a £600m investment from the government and Wellcome, ...

In the wake of a disastrous data loss at the National Health Service, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement promising to work more closely with ...

More than 150,000 people have had their personal information handled by England’s Test and Trace scheme since it was hurriedly launched on May 28 – 36 days ago. However, the government has failed to ...

The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office — a nondepartmental public body that reports to the Parliament — ruled London-based Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the U.K. Data ...

Companies in the UK are doing a great job at data protection but compliance in the NHS and local government sectors is a bit shakier, the Information Commissioner's Office has said. The privacy ...

Shortcomings in patient data privacy have been found by the ICO on a case involving the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust’s use of Google DeepMind. In a statement, the ICO said that the Royal Free NHS ...

An NHS trust with more than half a million patients each year has been found to be ‘in breach’ of a data protection law. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - which manages Stepping Hill Hospital - was ...

NHS England is to delay by six months the roll-out of its controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records through a central database. An NHS England spokesman said the delay was to “allow ...

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...

Update, 8 June 2016: We have updated this story to include new information from the Memorandum of Understanding between Royal Free and DeepMind obtained by New Scientist yesterday. Three weeks ago, ...

How are you? Bit of a cold? Perhaps something worse? Silicon Valley wants to know – big tech is coming for our health data. But while we're generally happy with academic or publicly funded research ...

The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has finally shared the results of its lengthy investigation into DeepMind’s original deal with the NHS. According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the ...