LETTERS

摘要

You quote Pedro Domingos saying that if someone won't allow their medical data to be used in training artificially intelligent systems, "they shouldn't have access to the better treatments that result" (15 July, p 36). If someone has never donated blood, would we refuse them a life-saving transfusion? People object to their medical data being centralised for many reasonssuch as a justified fear that it will be given to a corporation that will profit from it directly or sell it on, The deal to share patient data between The Royal Free London NHS Trust and DeepMind was recently found to have "failed to comply with data protection law", yet no action has been taken (8 July, p 4). Without punishment, no organisation has an incentive to stick to the law.