UK Government Hands NHS Data To Amazon For Free

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UK Government Hands NHS Data To Amazon For Free

The British government is coming under fire for a deal to hand over NHS healthcare information to Amazon for free. Following a series of FOI requests from Privacy International and other organisations, the contract has now been released, revealing that it goes far further than had previously been admitted. Back in July, health secretary Matt Hancock announced the deal as a way to help give patients better medical advice via the Alexa home assistant. However, it’s now become clear that the contract gives Amazon access to all ‘healthcare information, including without limitation symptoms, causes, and definitions, and all related copyrightable content, data, information and other materials’ held by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Amazon is also being given access to the NHS API. And the company is able to use this data in a number of different ways, not just to provide advice to UK users. Amazon has defended the contract, claiming that the data amounts only to ‘general health-related content’. However the full details aren’t clear, with large amounts of the contract redacted because, says the DHSC, ‘the release of the redacted clauses would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of Amazon’.

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“While this particular contract may sound harmless at first – after all, it is good news if Amazon uses the NHS as a trusted source for information for medical queries – we should not be naive about the intentions of big companies that are preying over the NHS,” comments Privacy International. “This particular partnership also raises questions when it comes to competition regulation of dominant players in the digital era. With their business model relying increasingly on the availability of consumers’ data, dominant online platforms can engage in various forms of data exploitation or even impose unfair terms for consumers.”
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The timing is particularly sensitive. The UK is due to go to the polls this Thursday amid fears that the Conservative Party is planning to allow US companies to increase the costs of medicines for the NHS. And it’s also become clear that Amazon hasn’t paid a penny for all this data – something described as astonishing by MP David Lammy. “You wouldn’t trust this government to negotiate for you at a car boot sale,” he comments. “God help us if they are put in trade negotiations with Donald Trump’s US.”

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