Report: Facebook And ‘Top-Secret’ Doctor Were Working With Hospitals T

[tangor]

Report: Facebook And ‘Top-Secret’ Doctor Were Working With Hospitals To Collect Patient Information
Facebook reportedly asked multiple hospitals around the country somewhat recently if they wanted to share patient information in an apparent attempt to help the healthcare institutions with certain processes.

While the initiative, which CNBC first reported, hasn’t made it past the initial planning stage, it will likely intensify already clamorous concerns over how the tech giant values people’s data privacy.

[dailycaller.com...]

Pretty sure the current climate regarding FBs privacy invasions will have an effect on whether this goes forward.

[Travis]

In Europe, this kind of thing is a big no no.

[Marshall]

I would think that would be a violation of HIPPA laws in the US.

[Brett_Tabke]

Link bait.

There is so much going on in the health care space in this regard. Huge investments going on in health care inside of the Valley. Google invested in Flatiron (big health care research firm with direct access to patient records - mainly in cancer space). Everyone from Google, Facebook, to Microsoft has money into leading health care research. They all think it is the next big Unicorn - Facebook has to play.

> hippa

Most people diagnosed with anything major - sign away those rights without even knowing it.

The data in this case was all anonymized (can be purchased in bulk from lots of health care data providers).

[Travis]

The data in this case was all anonymized (can be purchased in bulk from lots of health care data providers).

Until the day someone succeeds to find a way to cross all data and be able to identify people...

[tangor]

Link bait? Perhaps, but the optics of recent FB excesses over personal data (and loss of same) does give pause. Marry a SM, FB or G advertising profile with personal health records and that's a scary thought.

[Brett_Tabke]

>but the optics of recent FB excesses

Totally - they've had a bad month and its only the 6th.

[NickMNS]

Until the day someone succeeds to find a way to cross all data and be able to identify people...

Given the wealth of data willingly forked over to FB by individuals, there is no doubt that "crossing" this data should already be very doable. Do they? No way to know. Can they? Technically most probably, legally my guess is that they probably could.

[stever]

>> re Europe (although UK!)

Apparently Google partnered with the NHS, breaking UK privacy laws along the way, and now has the information about 1.6 million patients on its 'Deep Mind' servers.

[bbc.com...]