Australia’s Biggest Medical Imaging Lab Is Training AI on Its Scan Data Without Patient Consent

September 19th, 2024

Via: Crikey:

Australia’s biggest radiology company has handed over the private medical scans of potentially hundreds of thousands of patients, without their knowledge, to a start-up company that will use the scans to train artificial intelligence, in what privacy experts say is a practice that the law should protect against.

One Response to “Australia’s Biggest Medical Imaging Lab Is Training AI on Its Scan Data Without Patient Consent”

  1. Snowman says:

    If you want to build and repair a human, you have to know what his insides look like when he’s healthy and when he’s not. If they’d asked us to permit the data release, too many of us might have said no, so…

    Which Australian nuclear plant will be dedicated to this company? Or will they have to share one with other companies? Or maybe lease their power from Microsoft?

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