That is the backdrop for the recent NHS announcement that a deal has been done with the US spy-tech company Palantir to manage data in its hospitals, connecting up information held by different trusts and allowing the health service to draw conclusions about population health.
But Palantir in particular, with its record of working on immigration enforcement in the US, will create issues for public trust in the use of their data, even if properly anonymised.
Earlier this year a spokesperson for Palantir said: As a software company, we don't collect or monetise data, we simply provide the tools to help customers organise and understand their own information.
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