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Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) and DeepMind must start by

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问题     Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) and DeepMind must start by acknowledging that both sides mean well. DeepMind is one of the leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world. The potential of this work applied to health-care is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giant. It is against that background that the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has issued her damning verdict against the Royal Free hospital trust under the NHS, which handed over to DeepMind the records of 1. 6 million patients in 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients’ rights and their expectations of privacy.
    DeepMind has almost apologized. The NHS trust has mended its ways. Further arrangements— and there may be many—between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinised to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned. There are lessons about informed patient consent to learn. But privacy is not the only angle in this case and not even the most important. Ms Denham chose to concentrate the blame on the NHS trust, since under existing law it "controlled" the data and DeepMind merely "processed" it. But this distinction misses the point that it is processing and aggregation, not the mere possession of bits, that gives the data value.
    The great question is who should benefit from the analysis of all the data that our lives now generate. Privacy law builds on the concept of damage to an individual from identifiable knowledge about them. That misses the way the surveillance economy works. The data of an individual there gains its value only when it is compared with the data of countless millions more.
    The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted. This practice does not address the real worry. It is not enough to say that the algorithms DeepMind develops will benefit patients and save lives. What matters is that they will belong to a private monopoly which developed them using public resources. If software promises to save lives on the scale that drugs now can, big data may be expected to behave as big pharma has done. We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later. A long struggle will be needed to avoid a future of digital feudalism. Ms Denham’s report is a welcome start.
What is true of the agreement between the NHS and DeepMind?
选项 A、It caused conflicts among tech giants.
B、It failed to pay due attention to patient’s rights.
C、It fell short of the latter’s expectations.
D、It put both sides into a dangerous situation.
答案B
解析 根据题干关键信息agreement between the NHS and DeepMind可定位至文章首段。本段末句提到，伊丽莎白．德纳姆指控NHS下属的一个医院信托机构，该机构于2015年基于一个不甚明确的协议把160万患者的医疗记录交给了DeepMind公司，该协议基本没有考虑到患者的权利以及他们对于保护自己隐私的期望。由此可知，NHS和DeepMind之间的协议没有充分考虑到患者的权利。故选B。
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