Friday 26 February 2016

Weekly Stories

Apple accuses FBI of violating constitutional rights in iPhone battle
=The 36-page legal brief is Apple’s formal rebuttal to a federal court order to write and sign software that would make it easier for investigators to open a phone used by the San Bernardino gunman.
  • FBI’s ‘unprecedented’ request violates free speech law, Apple argues in first legal response to order that it must provide access to San Bernardino shooter’s phone
  • Apple’s lawyers believe forcing America’s largest company to help the government crack open one of its iPhones would violate the US constitution and be a misinterpretation of a 227-year-old law.
  • The tech firm’s attorneys argue the government seeks “a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe.”

This story covers how Apple accused the FBI of violating constitutional rights. The FBI asked apple if they would allow them to hack into people phones to get more evidence on people they may be looking for. Personally I think that large organisations being able to hack into people phones without them knowing is quite scary.


Smart care: how Google DeepMind is working with NHS hospitals

Lord Darzi (centre), picture in 2007 St Mary’s Hospital. Darzi has led a team working on a smartphone app that is being developed by DeepMind and piloted at St Mary’s.

  • A smartphone app piloted by the NHS could improve communication between hospital staff and help patients get vital care faster
  • Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s London-based company most famous for itsgroundbreaking use of artificial intelligence, is developing a software in partnership with NHS hospitals to alert staff to patients at risk of deterioration and death through kidney failure.
  • The technology, which is run through a smartphone app, has the support of Lord Darzi, the surgeon and former health minister in the Blair government who is director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London.

This story covers how the NHS are considering the development of an app which would make communications within a hospital much more easy. In addition, this will be done through a smart phone app. Personally, i think this is interesting because it shows us how much smartphones have been able to take over our lives and how much we have become dependant on it 
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