Privacy groups focus on national data opt-out as FDP tender concludes
As NHS England prepares to announce the winner of the £480 million contract to deliver the new Federated Data Platform (FDP), legal groups and data privacy activists are focusing on the national data opt-out and its future status. The FDP project has been mired in controversy due to questions about its cost, purpose, a lack of transparency over the tender process and special concerns about the incumbent provider and presumed leading bidder, US data analytics giant Palantir, in partnership with Accenture, which some worry has corporate values culture at odds with the values of the NHS. Yet le...
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