UK plan for AI training on medical data faces privacy hurdle over anonymity
By Patricia Figueiredo ( January 16, 2025, 16:51 GMT | Comment) -- UK plans to promote AI by making healthcare datasets available for AI model training have prompted data protection concerns, with a struggle expected in ensuring true anonymity in datasets. Experts argue the UK is expected to take a similar regulatory approach to the EU, where the European Data Protection Board recently set a high bar for an AI model to be considered anonymous.New UK plans to promote artificial intelligence by making healthcare datasets available for AI model training may throw up privacy problems if initiatives stumble over anonymizing sensitive personal data....
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