BBC Report A deal between Google's artificial intelligence firm DeepMind and the UK's NHS had serious "inadequacies", an academic paper has suggested: patients were not told how their data would be used. When the deal between London's Royal Free Hospital and DeepMind became public in February 2016, some three months after the data started to be collected, it caused controversy over the amount of patient information being shared and the lack of public consultation. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39301901 And here's Julia Powles and Hal Hodson's paper Google DeepMind and healthcare in an age of algorithms "In 2016, DeepMind announced its first major health project: a collaboration with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, to assist in the management of acute kidney injury. Initially received with great enthusiasm, the collaboration has suffered from a lack of clarity and openness, with issues of privacy and power emerging as potent challenges as the project has unfolded. Taking" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12553-017-0179-1