US big data firm is using confidential UK coronavirus patient information to build 'COVID-19 datastore'

There are privacy concerns following the revelation that confidential data from UK coronavirus patients is being used by technology firms and government to build predictive computer models to help fight the pandemic. US big data firm Palantir and UK AI startup Faculty are working together to put together what has been described as a "COVID-19 datastore". Pulling together information from government databases as well as information from health services, the project also makes use of highly personal data relating to individual patients according to documents seen by the Guardian. See also: Coronavirus means Unicode 14.0 emoji are delayed by six… [Continue Reading]