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Keir Starmer is not helping Britain's AI businesses. He is again following orders from his new Washington overlords. This recent grooming scandal brought up by

Keir Starmer is not helping Britain's AI businesses. He is again following orders from his new Washington overlords. This recent grooming scandal brought up by Musk etc. is just theater to distract. Seems to be the new thing: Insult Starmer, then cooperate. Insult Netanyahu (with the Jeffrey Sachs tape posted by Trump), then cooperate. Just to maintain the illusion of disagreement. So the data is supposed to be anonymized. That is a false promise and seems to be a research topic: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19045-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19045-3

bigs 2y ago
Wasn’t NHS data anonymised, split into sets and sold a decade ago, then some corp bought multiple sets of the data and combined them easily, de-anonymising it?
- bigfatkitten 2y ago
  The "solution" to this is to criminalise de-anonymising the data, like the geniuses in the Australian government. https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/29/researchers_crack_oz_govt_medical_data_in_easy_basic_pc_attack/ https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/29/researchers_crack_oz_...
roboboffin 2y ago
This research seems to show that two X-rays can be identified as being from the same person, rather than identifying the person directly. However, I have no doubt that AI could easily de-anonymize data fully given enough data points.
rsynnott 2y ago
Eh, I suspect he's just looking for a distraction from Britain's problems, which are basically intractable (deep-seated economic issues, now exacerbated by Brexit). The previous government also trumpeted a lot of AI bullshit (and to some extent metaverse bullshit and crypto bullshit before that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/rishi-sunak-asks-royal-mint-to-create-nft https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/rishi-sun...), for similar reasons; the desire to be seen to be doing something. Ultimately, the UK will likely have to move towards reversing Brexit, in part or whole, but that's probably too politically explosive to seriously touch for five or ten years, so I think we'll be seeing plans for salvation through nonsense for a while yet.

bigs 2y ago

Wasn’t NHS data anonymised, split into sets and sold a decade ago, then some corp bought multiple sets of the data and combined them easily, de-anonymising it?

bigfatkitten 2y ago
The "solution" to this is to criminalise de-anonymising the data, like the geniuses in the Australian government. https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/29/researchers_crack_oz_govt_medical_data_in_easy_basic_pc_attack/ https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/29/researchers_crack_oz_...

roboboffin 2y ago

This research seems to show that two X-rays can be identified as being from the same person, rather than identifying the person directly. However, I have no doubt that AI could easily de-anonymize data fully given enough data points.

rsynnott 2y ago

Eh, I suspect he's just looking for a distraction from Britain's problems, which are basically intractable (deep-seated economic issues, now exacerbated by Brexit). The previous government also trumpeted a lot of AI bullshit (and to some extent metaverse bullshit and crypto bullshit before that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/rishi-sunak-asks-royal-mint-to-create-nft https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/rishi-sun...), for similar reasons; the desire to be seen to be doing something. Ultimately, the UK will likely have to move towards reversing Brexit, in part or whole, but that's probably too politically explosive to seriously touch for five or ten years, so I think we'll be seeing plans for salvation through nonsense for a while yet.