Dormann believes this could be a hangover from the testing phase of app development, where coders remove validation checks to make the process smoother, or by lazy coders who adopt open sourced software without analysing its security.
DeepMind would not comment when asked about the ethics of expanding a commercial rollout when doubt has been cast over the legal basis under which patients' data was obtained and used during the development phase of the app.
Now the patient data safety advisory body to the UK government, the National Data Guardian (NDG), has weighed in with an opinion that there was — contrary to DeepMind's repeat insistence — no lawful basis for the data transfer of 1.6 million patients' medical records to the Google-owned company during a development / piloting phase of the app.
Now the patient data safety advisory body to the UK government, the National Data Guardian (NDG), has weighed in with an opinion that there was — contrary to DeepMind's repeat insistence — no lawful basis for the data transfer of 1.6 million patients' medical records to the Google-owned company during a development / piloting phase of the app.
Moving forward, along with iOS and the forthcoming Android support, MobiCart says that development has already started on the next phase of the app, with the iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile versions due out next year.
Matthew Panzarino, co-editor of TechCrunch, has charted three phases of app development that took mobile technology from telephony to gaming and utilities, to apps that wanted to be your "home screen" and dominate your experience, to apps armed with content that "are more about maximizing their usefulness without dominating your attention".
The current construction is actually the second phase of the development.
But the letter does make it clear that in Caldicott's view DeepMind and the Royal Free were not justified in their use of live patient data during the testing/development phase of the Streams app.
But the letter does make it clear that in Caldicott's view DeepMind and the Royal Free were not justified in their use of live patient data during the testing/development phase of the Streams app.
The pace of new app development dwarfs the release of other kinds of media.
