Google has been controversially granted access to confidential patient records by the NHS—the UK’s national health service. According to a scoop from New Scientist magazine, the ad giant’s artificial intelligence company DeepMind inked a data-sharing deal with three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust. Roughly 1.6 million patients at three hospitals—Barnet, Chase Farm, and the Royal Free—will have their data analysed by Google’s AI system each