Hacker News with Generative AI: Privacy Concerns

NHS England hospitals cast doubt on Palantir use case (theregister.com)
English hospitals are voicing their concern about the functionality provided by Palantir, the US spy-tech firm that won a £330 million ($437 million) deal to run the Federated Data Platform for NHS England, as around a third of trusts go live on the system.
Healthcare, Data Management, Government Contracts, Privacy Concerns
9 points by mastazi 3 days ago | 0 comments
UK hospitals doubt Palantir utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain' (theregister.com)
English hospitals are voicing their concern about the functionality provided by Palantir, the US spy-tech firm that won a £330 million ($437 million) deal to run the Federated Data Platform for NHS England, as around a third of trusts go live on the system.
Healthcare, Data Management, Government Contracts, Privacy Concerns, United Kingdom
18 points by rntn 6 days ago | 2 comments
'Slippery slope to eugenics': advocates reject RFK Jr's national autism database (theguardian.com)
Autism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database – meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study – and pointing to the ways such databases could be misused.
Autism, Health Research, Eugenics, Privacy Concerns
12 points by bookofjoe 18 days ago | 1 comments
Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos (techcrunch.com)
There’s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures.
ChatGPT, Privacy Concerns, Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition
108 points by jnord 35 days ago | 55 comments
Google's mysterious 'search.app' links leave Android users concerned (bleepingcomputer.com)
Google has left Android users puzzled after the most recent update to the Google mobile app causes links shared from the app to now be prepended with a mysterious "search.app" domain.
Google, Android, Mobile Apps, Privacy Concerns, Security
29 points by N19PEDL2 196 days ago | 8 comments