Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government... The material, which excludes patient data, could allow the multinational technology company to make, advertise and sell its own products... [The freedom of information requests published by the Sundat times shows] the contract will also allow the company access to information on symptoms, causes and definitions of conditions, and “all related copyrightable content and data and other materials”... An NHS spokesperson said: “No patient data is being provided to this company by the NHS, which takes data privacy extremely seriously and has put appropriate safeguards in place to ensure information is used correctly.”... Amazon told the Sunday Times the content it had access to was already on the NHS website. “Amazon does not build customer health profiles based on interactions with nhs.uk content or use such requests for marketing purposes,” it added...