{"id":2955,"date":"2021-09-24T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/undisclosed-private-companies-analysing-facial-data-from-nhs-app\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:54:00","slug":"undisclosed-private-companies-analysing-facial-data-from-nhs-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/undisclosed-private-companies-analysing-facial-data-from-nhs-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Undisclosed private companies analysing facial data from NHS app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh privacy concerns raised after NHS refuses to reveal firms used for ID verification process <\/p>\n<p>Undisclosed companies are analysing facial data collected by the NHS app, which is used by more than 16 million English citizens, prompting fresh concern about the role of outsourcing to private businesses in the service.<\/p>\n<p>Data security experts have previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/sep\/15\/nhs-app-storing-facial-verification-data-via-contract-with-firm-linked-to-tory-donors\">criticised the lack of transparency<\/a> around a contract with the NHS held by iProov, whose facial verification software is used to perform automated ID checks on people signing up for the NHS app.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/sep\/24\/undisclosed-private-companies-analysing-facial-data-from-nhs-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1ebaafb5b12d969b66f64b7060c4d4e770fea579\/0_182_5497_3300\/master\/5497.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a5688fb05d5375b46d5a67cd9c25cc4a\" title=\"Undisclosed private companies analysing facial data from NHS app\" \/>Fresh privacy concerns raised after NHS refuses to reveal firms used for ID verification process<br \/>\nUndisclosed companies are analysing facial data collected by the NHS app, which is used by more than 16 million English citizens, prompting fresh concern about the role of outsourcing to private businesses in the service.<br \/>\nData security experts have previously criticised the lack of transparency around a contract with the NHS held by iProov, whose facial verification software is used to perform automated ID checks on people signing up for the NHS app. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh privacy concerns raised after NHS refuses to reveal firms used for ID verification process Undisclosed companies are analysing facial data collected by the NHS app, which is used by more than 16 million English citizens, prompting fresh concern about the role of outsourcing to private businesses in the service. Data security experts have previously &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/undisclosed-private-companies-analysing-facial-data-from-nhs-app\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Undisclosed private companies analysing facial data from NHS app<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}