A leaked data-sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind and the NHS reveals that Google has access to sensitive patient data belonging to 1.6 million citizens in the UK. The collaboration between Google and the UK’s National Health Service goes beyond what has publicly been admitted, according to the document obtained by New Scientist magazine. Newscientist.com reports: The agreement gives DeepMind access to a wide range of healthcare data on the 1.6 million patients who pass through three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust – Barnet, Chase Farm and the Royal Free – each year. This will include information about people who are HIV-positive, for instance, as well as details of drug overdoses and abortions. The agreement also includes access to patient data from the last five years. DeepMind announced in February that it was working with the NHS, saying it was building an app called Streams to help hospital staff monitor patients with kidney disease. But the agreement suggests that it has plans for a lot more. This is the first we’ve heard of DeepMind getting access to historical medical records, says Sam Smith, who runs health data privacy group MedConfidential. “This is not [...]