UK propper fucked…. 1984
NHS will use phone data to predict threats to your health
People’s medical records will be combined with social and smartphone data to predict who will pick up bad habits and stop them getting ill, under radical government proposals.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is planning a system of “predictive prevention”, in which algorithms will use detailed data on individuals to send targeted healthy living messages to those flagged as having “propensities to health problems”, such as taking up smoking or becoming obese.
Despite promises to safeguard data, the “creepy” plans have already attracted privacy concerns among doctors and campaigners, who say that the project risks backfiring by scaring people or damaging public trust in NHS handling of sensitive information.
Mr Hancock, who has made improving the NHS’s use of technology a priority, argues that as…
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-will-use-phone-data-to-predict-threats-to-your-health-r7085zqfq