• France’s telecom regulator thinks net neutrality should also apply to devices

    France’s telecom regulator thinks net neutrality should also apply to devices

    The ARCEP, France’s equivalent of the FCC in the U.S., wants to go beyond telecommunications companies. While many regulatory authorities have focused on carriers and internet service providers, the French authority thinks Google, Apple, Amazon and all the big tech companies also need their own version of net neutrality. The ARCEP just published a thorough…

  • Documents detail DeepMind’s plan to apply AI to NHS data in 2015

    Documents detail DeepMind’s plan to apply AI to NHS data in 2015

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    More details have emerged about a controversial 2015 patient data-sharing arrangement between Google DeepMind and a UK National Health Service Trust which paint a contrasting picture vs the pair’s public narrative about their intended use of 1.6 million citizens’ medical records. DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust signed their initial information sharing agreement (ISA) in September…