BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1)
As it stands we're heading for extra time and penalties! Bayern Munich have completely dominated the first half, and are ahead on the night thanks to Xabi Alonso's deflected free-kick.
But it could have been even better for the hosts, as Thomas Muller saw his penalty saved by Jan Oblak shortly after Alonso's opener. Atletico Madrid have offered little on the break, with just a couple of long-distance strikes from Gabi to show for the opening 45 minutes.
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BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1)
45: One minute of added time. It's been a breathless first-half...
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BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1)
43: Class from Vidal as he releases Muller down the right. The Bayern Munich forward skips away from one challenge and looks for the early cross to Lewandowski, but brilliant defending from Gimenez cuts it out. The young Atletico man had a disastrous few minutes, deflecting the free-kick before conceding the penalty, but he seems to have settled down.
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BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1)
40: Here's a look at Alonso's deflected free-kick that has Bayern Munich in front on the night, and the tie level on aggregate...
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BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1)
37: Simeone is fired up on the sideline after that penalty save. There seemed to be a little skirmish between Lewandowski and Juanfran, and Ribery got involved with Simeone, but it's calmed down now.
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ON A KNIFE EDGE
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BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1)
34: SAVED BY OBLAK! The Atleti goalkeeper steps up and makes a huge save from Thomas Muller's penalty. It was a nice height for the 'keeper, but he was at full stretch and turned it wide. That could be crucial!
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BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1)
32: PENALTY TO BAYERN! Nightmare for Gimenez as he's penalised for a shirt-pull on Martinez in the Atleti penalty area. After the goal Bayern had surged forward, immediately looking for the second, and they've got a golden opportunity...
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GOAL! BAYERN MUNICH 1-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 1-1) (Alonso, 31)
The tie is level on aggregate, and it's a deflected free-kick from Xabi Alonso that breaks the deadlock on the night! Lewandowski stepped over the set-piece, leaving it to the Spaniard, and he drilled it low from 20 yards. It took a big deflection, though, striking Gimenez in the Atleti wall and leaving Oblak no chance.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
29: Chance for Bayern now as Alaba wins a free-kick right on the edge of the Atleti penalty area. The Bayern man was a little too quick for Augusto...
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
28: Ribery puts another ball into the Atleti penalty area and it breaks to Lahm but the Bayern captain fires over. The referee then comes over to speak to Oblak on the goal kick and seems to be telling him to speed things up.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
27: Atletico Madrid, who have had just 24 per cent possession so far, win a corner. Koke trots over but his delivery is terrible and Lahm clears, and only super covering from Gabi prevents a Bayern counter.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
25: CHANCE! Oblak spills Ribery's shot from distance after a Bayern corner is cleared and Lewandowski darts in for the follow-up, but fires over under pressure. The Bayern fans want a penalty after Oblak dived at the feet of the Polish striker, but referee Cuneyt Cakir was not interested. Looks a good decision on the replay.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
23: A couple of half-chances for Lewandowski so far, but no breakthrough...
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
20: SAVE! Brilliant stop from Oblak as Bayern carve open the Atleti defence for the first time tonight. Boateng chips it forward and Muller drifts in behind, teeing up Lewandowski but his left-foot hit is smothered by the Atletico Madrid goalkeeper. Muller was in a central position about 10 yards out, and could have easily took it on himself.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
17: SHOT! Closer from Vidal! This time it's on his left-foot and his firm strike is heading towards the top corner but Oblak effortlessly plucks it out of the air. First Courtois, now Oblak. Atleti do love a top 'keeper.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
16: CHANCE! Another cross from Bayern causes Atletico problems in their penalty area - Costa knocks it in, and Muller's hooked volley is just behind Lewandowski at the back post.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
15: SHOT! Gabi has a great strike on him, and his first-time hit from Griezmann's lay-off draws a stop from Neuer. It was from 25 yards out, though, and needed to be something special to score from there.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
14: Atletico will be delighted with that - Vidal takes the ball from Ribery and blasts on goal from 30 yards. Miles over the bar.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
12: Every single Atletico Madrid player is back inside their defensive third - it's a blue wall guarding Oblak's goal.
CHANCE! Bayern are definitely looking to launch more crosses into the box in this second leg, and Costa's delivery is inches away from Lewandowski at the back post. Good defending from Juanfran.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
10: Alonso is on the delivery again, but after some pinball in the penalty area, Atletico Madrid clear their lines. After 10 minutes, it's as you would expect - Bayern controlling the ball but Atleti looking to pick their moments on the break.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
9: Missed opportunity for Bayern as Costa wastes a counter-attacking chance with an awful touch in midfield. He's getting on the ball in central positions at the moment, with Lahm overlapping down the right.
The hosts maintain possession and Ribery's cross is flicked clear for a Bayern corner...
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
8: Lewandowski wins a corner after hounding Luis down Bayern's right, and Boateng makes contact with Alonso's delivery but the defender's header is well over.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
6: A first opportunity for the visitors to test Bayern's defence as Koke has a free-kick on the left. He takes it short to Gabi, who fires on goal from fully 35 yards but it is straight at Neuer.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
5: Atletico serve warning as Koke slips a pass into the path of Torres, but the striker is a yard offside. It sounds like a superb atmosphere in the Allianz, with cries of "Bayern, Bayern" echoing around the arena.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
2: An early flashpoint as Gabi clatters Ribery in midfield, and the Frenchman is not happy. Just a free-kick to Bayern, but the hosts have started quickly, as you'd expect.
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BAYERN MUNICH 0-0 ATLETICO (AGG: 0-1)
1: We're under way...
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TEAMS ARE OUT
The two sides are out of the tunnel, and the Champions League anthem is blaring around the Allianz. We are 90 minutes (or 120 minutes if it finishes 1-0 to Bayern) from finding out the first finalist...
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ATLETI XI
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BAYERN XI
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Nagorno-Karabakh: BBC visits Azerbaijan's side of frontline By Tom Burridge
A two-decade long truce has been shattered by violence in western Azerbaijan.
Armenia claims it is not directly involved in a conflict, where it says ethnic Armenians are defending their right to self-determination in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. But Azerbaijan says its lands were occupied by Armenia, and that it is Armenia doing the fighting.
This is the first time that the BBC has been allowed to visit Azerbaijan's side of the frontline, as part of a government-organised trip, since the fighting broke out at the beginning of April.
In April, the BBC reported from the other side of the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Alakbar Alakbarov (centre)
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Alakbar Alakbarov (centre) says he is ready "to fight for my motherland"
Alakbar Alakbarov, 65, says he was drinking a cup of tea and watching a football match, when the bombs rained down on his village.
He shouts and waves his arms next to a ruined house, which he says he was lucky to escape from.
He blames "Armenian fascists".
"We want to take our land back by peaceful means. If not, I am ready to fight for my motherland."
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Ganbar Mustafayev says his brother Famil "became a martyr"
Azerbaijan's government took us and other journalists on a carefully organised trip to several villages and two hospitals to witness destroyed and burnt-out buildings, and to meet the injured as well as relatives of the deceased.
Clutching a photo of his brother Famil, Ganbar Mustafayev was waiting with three other elderly people, also mourning dead relatives, when our bus arrived.
"My brother became a martyr in his own house," he tells us.
"He died for his motherland and I am also ready to die."
Although our trip around Azerbaijan's regions near the conflict zone was well planned by the government, a genuine and deep sense of animosity towards Armenia was palpable among local people.
Such anger partly stems from the belief among most Azerbaijanis that Nagorno-Karabakh - as well as a large area of other land within Azerbaijan's internationally recognised borders - has been occupied by Armenia.
The ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh claim they are defending their right to self-determination.
'Inevitable' fighting
Hikmet Hijaev (right) accompanied journalists to meet people wounded by shelling
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Hikmet Hijaev (right) says that Baku is committed to a political resolution of the conflict
However, Hikmat Hajiyev from Azerbaijan's foreign ministry believes his country has the backing of the international community.
He points out that the UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions calling for the withdrawal of Armenian troops from parts of Azerbaijan's territories.
"Azerbaijan is committed to the negotiation process for a political resolution to this conflict," he says.
The deep-rooted hate in the region on both sides is also a hangover from the bloody war the two sides fought from 1988 to 1994.
An estimated 20-30,000 people were killed in that conflict, and there were allegations of human rights abuses by both sides.
But when a ceasefire took effect the dispute was still unresolved, and Baku-based journalist Rauf Mirkadirov is "surprised" that the truce has more or less held for 22 years.
He believes that, without an agreement, it was "inevitable" that the fighting would eventually resume.
Mr Mirkadirov is one of 16 people whom human rights groups considered to be political prisoners, who were released by Azerbaijan in March this year.
He points out that Azerbaijan "has increased its military muscle".
"From 2003-04 Azerbaijan invested $3bn (£2bn) in its military, and Armenia invested $300-400m."
Nagorno-Karabakh map
Rauf Mirkadirov says "military rhetoric" linked to the conflict is very popular in Azerbaijan, and he thinks Azeri society was growing tired of the status quo, over land lost in the west of the country.
"The opposition agrees with the government's policy of liberating territories occupied by Armenia.
"If it is successful, it is the best way to increase their popularity," he says.
Intricate allegiances
The Armenian-backed forces of the unrecognised republic of Nagorno-Karabakh blame Azerbaijan for the sharp escalation in violence in early April.
But Azerbaijan points the finger of blame at Armenia.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmet Hijaev claims Yerevan has adopted a pre-emptive strategy "to capture new territories" in order to "guarantee the security of occupied territories".
Russia has been the most active broker in peace negotiations.
However, Turkey is Azerbaijan's main ally, and relations between Moscow and Ankara have deteriorated since Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet on the Turkish-Syrian border in November.
Baku's release of some human rights activists and journalists, including Mr Mirkadirov, has widely been interpreted as an attempt to court the West.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev met members of the Obama administration on the sidelines of a nuclear conference in Washington in March.
Allegiances in this underreported region are as intricate as the language used to describe who is fighting.
Kandyce Downer guilty of baby Keegan's murder
A woman has been convicted of murdering a toddler who had suffered more than 150 injuries.
Kandyce Downer, 34, killed 18-month-old Keegan Downer, less than a year after she was appointed her legal guardian.
Keegan was subjected to what police described as "barbaric and evil" treatment, suffering brain and spinal injuries and had 153 scars and bruises.
On the day she died, Downer delayed calling 999 to dump her blood-spotted mattress, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
The jury took just under three hours to reach its verdict. Downer will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Forensic testing at the house revealed traces of the girl's blood in her cot and on the bedroom wall.
Downer had been appointed sole legal carer for Keegan, who died on 5 September last year, and has four other children, the jury was told.
The court was told that on finding the toddler "unwell" in her cot, she drove off to dump the child's old mattress near a skip before alerting emergency services.
More on this story and other news from Birmingham and the Black Country
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Kandyce Downer had denied murder
Born in March 2014 to a mother who was a heroin addict, Keegan was otherwise healthy but was put with a foster carer by social services.
Keegan, a member of Downer's extended family, was put under her guardianship around nine months before her death last September.
Also known as Shi-Anne, Keegan was described in court as a "happy baby" and had lived at Downer's family home in Beckbury Road, Weoley Castle.
'Systemic abuse'
Downer had told the court most of the "day-to-day" care of Keegan was down to her son and three younger children and claimed her eldest son may have been to blame for the fatal injuries.
The trial heard a leg fracture inflicted on the child would have left her in excruciating pain, making it inconceivable that someone looking after her would have been unaware of the injury.
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Downer appeared to provide a loving home for Keegan, police said
West Midlands Police said Downer appeared to provide a loving and stable home for Keegan but she was "cunning and devious in her systemic abuse of the child".
Det Insp Harry Harrison said: "We believe the abuse started when her relationship began to go wrong. This was an extremely disturbing and harrowing case to investigate.
"What Downer subjected Keegan to was barbaric, inhuman and evil."
He added he was "astounded by the lack of emotion" shown by Downer throughout this investigation.
"She has not shown a shred of remorse or sorrow," he said.
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Media captionKeegan was found to have a leg fracture which had gone untreated
Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board said it set up a Serious Case Review following the toddler's death "to establish what lessons could be learned by the agencies involved in this sad case".
Penny Thompson, chair of the board, said the review, which will reflect on information disclosed during the trial, could now be completed and its findings would be published in the summer.
An NSPCC spokesman said: "It defies belief that this abuse could happen at the hands of a woman who was entrusted with bringing up Keegan.
"Having already been placed in foster care as a baby, Keegan's legal guardian should have given her a stable and loving family life to grow up in.
"But instead she killed this defenceless little girl by subjecting her to the most brutal violence."
World of Warcraft invites legacy server team for talks
The team behind a fan-run version of World of Warcraft has secured a meeting with the game's developer after a public campaign.
In April, developer Blizzard Entertainment shut down Nostalrius, an unofficial server running an older, unsupported version of the game.
That led to more than 250,000 fans signing a petition for Blizzard to support so-called legacy servers.
It has now agreed to meet the team from Nostalrius to discuss the issue.
The private server ran an original version of the popular role-playing game, sometimes called a "vanilla" version, which reflects the game as it was released in 2004.
In the years since launch, WoW has been updated and patched with several expansions, which some fans feel has altered the fundamental experience.
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Expansion packs change game mechanics and add new areas
Nostalrius was shut down in April after Blizzard issued a legal warning, igniting a public debate among fans on the issue. Now the developer says it will invite the Nostalrius team to its California headquarters for discussions - though a date has not been fixed.
The company also suggested the possibility of what it called a "pristine" server, which would do away with some of the modern game's boosts and services, but run within the current version.
Nostalrius says formal meetings with Blizzard will make it a community advocate - and it hopes the company will take over the responsibility to run legacy servers legally.
"We feel we are now not only the admins of a private server, we are also the ambassadors of a larger movement for the entire World of Warcraft community that wants to see game history restored," they wrote in a forum post.
"It is a major responsibility. Our top priority and only focus now is to fulfil the needs of this community, by carrying your voice to Blizzard directly."
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World of Warcraft has about five million paying subscribers
Blizzard has never supported legacy servers itself, making illegal private servers the only option for experiencing the "classic" game.
Blizzard said the issue of "classic" servers had been discussed for years, but claimed it could not be implemented "without extreme difficulty". It also said it could not have allowed the private Nostalrius server to continue, as "failure to protect against intellectual property infringement would damage Blizzard's rights".
Fans reacted with mixed views to Blizzard's tentative discussions. Some fear that official legacy servers could pull company resources away from developing new content for the main version of the game. Others - including former WoW developer Mark Kern - said legacy servers were still needed.
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Former WoW developer Mark Kern is among the supporters of legacy servers
"WoW is an important game - it's part of gaming history - but there's no legal way for people to enjoy its earlier versions or see where it all came from," Mr Kern said in a video addressed to Blizzard.
"Unlike the old days, they can't just boot up a floppy disk or slip in a CD-Rom.
"The original game is gone from the world forever and legacy servers are the only way to preserve this vital part of gaming culture."
At its peak in 2010, World of Warcraft attracted almost 12 million subscribers, but today it has about five million paying customers. Nostalrius had about 150,000 active members when it was shut down on 10 April.
Samsung and Nvidia resolve patent clash
Samsung and computer-chip-maker Nvidia have settled a two-year patent battle.
Both firms had claimed the other had infringed the rights to its technologies.
The announcement came hours before a ruling that could have blocked Nvidia from importing some of its products into the US.
Although the agreement brings the dispute to a close, Nvidia said the terms of the deal were limited.
"The settlement includes the licensing of a small number of patents by each company to the other, but no broad cross-licensing of patents or other compensation," it said.
Samsung added: "We are happy to resolve this dispute through a fair settlement."
Neither company is disclosing any further details.
Counter-attack
The clash was first made public in September 2014, when Nvidia held a news conference during which its chief executive declared the South Korean tech giant was "using our [graphics] technology for free in their devices".
Jen-Hsun Huang went on to say that his firm was suing the smartphone-maker after months of failed talks.
Two months later, Samsung counter-sued claiming its innovations had been used without permission in Nvidia's Shield tablets and chips.
When the International Trade Commission - a US agency that investigates patent disputes - looked into the matter, it ruled that Samsung's graphics processors had not infringed Nvidia's patents.
But in a follow-up decision, it said Nvidia's chips had violated three of Samsung's patents.
The ITC had been due to announce whether this warranted an import ban, but will no longer do so because the case has been dismissed.
US Court orders Touch ID iPhone unlock
A US court has made a woman unlock her iPhone with her fingerprint.
Magistrate Alicia G Rosenburg signed a seizure warrant for the "fingerprint on iPhone device" of Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan, of Los Angeles, on 25 February, while she was in police custody.
It authorised officers to "depress" her fingerprints on the sensor.
Campaigners say making suspects decrypt their phones means they are testifying against themselves, which contravenes the US constitution's fifth amendment.
Apple's Touch ID system is one of two ways to unlock the encrypted contents of an iPhone - the other being to input the passcode. But the fingerprint can be used only within 48 hours of the phone being locked.
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Apple fought the FBI in court over its device encryption earlier this year
It has been argued that while a passcode is "contents of the mind", and thus protected under the fifth amendment, a fingerprint is physical evidence, and can be treated like a blood sample or prints recovered from a crime scene.
University of Dayton law professor Susan Brenner said smartphones contained a great deal of personal information and "a lot of that could be incriminating".
"By showing you opened the phone, you showed that you have control over it," she said.
"It is the same as if she went home and pulled out paper documents - she has produced it."
If a person could not refuse to put their finger on a biometric reader to decrypt data for the government, "then encryption really isn't worth much", said Prof Brenner.
"The result would be we would create content at our peril, as we would have no way to secure it from state investigators."
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a man remains in jail for refusing to decrypt two hard drives investigators suspect contain indecent images of children.
In that case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign group said compelling suspects to decrypt data violated fifth amendment rights.
"Complying with the order would communicate facts that are not foregone conclusions already known to the government," it said.
Google given access to UK patient records for research By Jane Wakefield
Google has been given access to an estimated 1.6 million NHS patient records, it has been revealed.
The data-sharing agreement, revealed by New Scientist, includes full names as well as patient histories.
Google says it will use the data to develop an early warning system for patients at risk of developing acute kidney injuries.
But critics have questioned why it needs the data of all patients to create such a specific app.
Under the data-sharing agreement, Google's artificial intelligence division DeepMind will have access to all of the data of patients from the Royal Free, Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals in London going back over the past five years and continuing until 2017.
It plans to use the data to develop an app known as Streams that will alert doctors when someone is at risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI).
The data remains encrypted, meaning that Google employees should not be able to identify anyone, according to the Royal Free Trust.
It said that doctors from the Trust approached DeepMind about the development of the app.
In a statement, it said: "Our arrangement with DeepMind is the standard NHS information-sharing agreement set out by NHS England's corporate information governance department, and is the same as the other 1,500 agreements with third-party organisations that process NHS patient data.
"As with all information sharing agreements with non-NHS organisations, patients can opt out of any data-sharing system by contacting the trust's data protection officer."
Sam Smith, a co-ordinator of patient data campaign group MedConfidential, said: "The big question is why they want it. This a very rich data set. If you are someone who went to the A&E department, why is your data in this?"
Google said that it needed general data in order to identify patients who might be at risk of developing AKI.
AKI is a contributing factor in up to 20% of emergency hospital admissions, according to the NHS. It estimates that around a quarter of cases are preventable.
It is not clear how exactly Google will use the data to provide this early warning system but the BBC understands that no artificial intelligence will be used.
Mapping health
Dominic King, a senior scientist at Google DeepMind, said: "Access to timely and relevant clinical data is essential for doctors and nurses looking for signs of patient deterioration. This work focuses on acute kidney injuries that contribute to 40,000 deaths a year in the UK, many of which are preventable.
"The kidney specialists who have led this work are confident that the alerts our system generates will transform outcomes for their patients. For us to generate these alerts it is necessary for us to look at a range of tests taken at different time intervals."
Google has not ruled out the use of the data for other purposes but said it will only ever be used for improving healthcare and will never be linked to other Google accounts or products.
Google does have big ambitions in healthcare.
In 2013 it launched Calico, a firm set up to look at ways to tackle ageing while X, Google's research arm, launched Baseline in 2014 - an ambitious plan to map genetic information to gain a picture of what makes humans healthy.
