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Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between the NHS and DeepMind must start by acknowledging that both sides m

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问题     Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between the NHS and DeepMind must start by acknowledging that both sides mean well. DeepMind, owned by Google’s owners, is one of the leading artificial intelligence outfits in the world. The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great. But it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants. It is against that background that the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has issued her damning verdict against the Royal Free hospital trust, 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 trust has mended its ways. Further arrangements—and there may be many—between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinized to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been removed. 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 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, or of competition law in the case of the EU’s dispute with Google, both feel slightly maladapted. They do 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.
Which of the following is the best title for the text?
选项 A、Deal Between the NHS and DeepMind
B、Patient Data: We Need a Better Approach
C、Accusation of Elizabeth Denham against the Royal Free hospital trust
D、Struggle to Avoid a Future of Digital Feudalism
答案B
解析 主旨题。解答主旨题的关键是通过把握各段的段落大意(一般位于段落的首尾句) 来把握全文主旨。需要排除文章某一句或者某一段内容的干扰。这些信息很熟悉，但是由于过于片面而无法概括全文，如本题的A项、C项和D项。首先需要明确，全文的主题词是patient data“患者数据”，通过最后一段可知，作者认为当前privacy law“隐私法”和competition law“竞争法”对 “科技巨头”的约束不够。而software“软件”和big data“大数据”是未来的趋势，也就是需要一种更好的方法来处理患者的数据。故本题答案为B项。
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