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Google faces backlash from privacy activists for gathering people's health data from hospitals across the country to build its algorithms
Business Insider ^ | Aaron Holmes | Aaron Holmes

Posted on 08/24/2020 6:03:00 AM PDT by tbw2

For years, Google has been quietly gathering people's health data through partnerships with hospitals and universities in order to build its artificial intelligence systems meant to predict health trends.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: google; healthcare; medicine
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1 posted on 08/24/2020 6:03:00 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Google should be broken up as a monopoly


2 posted on 08/24/2020 6:27:08 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: tbw2

Interesting. BY LAW (under both the ADA and HIPAA) all health data is private can cannot be released.

So both hospitals and Google are breaking the law big-time to do this.


3 posted on 08/24/2020 6:31:59 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: Arlis

They’re on the left, get over it. /s


4 posted on 08/24/2020 6:40:27 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Arlis; tbw2
Arlis :" Interesting. BY LAW (under both the ADA and HIPAA) all health data is private can cannot be released.
So both hospitals and Google are breaking the law big-time to do this."

Meanwhile, people are voluntarily submitting prescriptions to electronic companies for periodic automatic medication renewal and packaging.
"All your personal and confidential information, and medications are now belong to us "
Welcome to the BORG !(SciFi , Star Trek reference)

5 posted on 08/24/2020 7:27:48 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: tbw2

google is a huge part of the Ministry of Propaganda in this country.

I use duckduckgo..


6 posted on 08/24/2020 7:46:41 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: tbw2

Violation of HIPPA laws.


7 posted on 08/24/2020 7:47:53 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Gals)
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To: Arlis

Both laws are meaningless on the totally hackable internet.


8 posted on 08/24/2020 7:51:31 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Arlis

Ahh but it CAN be released. It just has to anonymized. It’s perfectly legal for a hospital to say “on this date we had this many heart patients with these demographics, this many cancers patients spread thusly...” Just so long as they aren’t saying Arlis had XYZ it’s all fine.


9 posted on 08/24/2020 7:53:22 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu
. It just has to anonymized.

and everyone knows that it won't, and that the violations will be open, obvious, and ubiquitous.

10 posted on 08/24/2020 7:56:28 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Actually it probably is. Because anonymization gives the demographics info. Which is what big data cares about. Google doesn’t give a crap what illness YOU have. What they want to know is what a person of your race, gender, age, income bracket, and zip code has. So they can compare that to all the other folks in those demos, and get statistics to tell them group X is more likely to have illness Y.


11 posted on 08/24/2020 7:59:54 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu
Try using Google to search for some health condition.

Shortly after you will start see advertisements for treatments related to that condition.

So they are interested in your health condition as long as they can monetize it.

12 posted on 08/24/2020 8:11:12 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: desertfreedom765

That’s they’re normal stuff. Search for anything you get adds for it. But the goal of big data is giving you those ads BEFORE you search. That’s the holy grail of target marketing. It’s not about giving you ads when you find out you’ve got illness X. It’s about planting the name of that drug in your head BEFORE you get the news from your doctor, so you already know what to ask for. And for THAT they need demographic trends.


13 posted on 08/24/2020 8:14:08 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

No thanks, I’m not interested in being part of their predictive analytics.

Which is why I rarely use google.


14 posted on 08/24/2020 8:31:03 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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Nobody cares what you want. You’ve been part of predictive analytics as long as you’ve been alive. Use google, don’t use google, doesn’t matter. In the 90s Target had figured out buying patterns well enough they could detect a woman got pregnant before she thought to take the test. They got in trouble when they forgot not to target market 16 year olds on that that info. That was in the 90s just using credit card data and the stuff that was available then. They know your demographic group, they know your trends, they WILL target market you. You don’t ever need to hit google, 90% of the web uses google analytics exactly for this, to pump ads to people. So you’re always hitting google, no matter what.


15 posted on 08/24/2020 8:35:16 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu
Which is why is use a vpn, private browsing and a private email account.

It's funny watching the generic ad's they try to push as they don't know who your are.

Don't want to and won't be assimilated into their Borg.

16 posted on 08/24/2020 8:55:24 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: desertfreedom765

Bwahaha. You actually think any of that helps? Wow, you really don’t understand how the analytics works. There is no actual anonymity on the web. It’s a post privacy world. Have fun pretending you’re not in the Borg.


17 posted on 08/24/2020 8:57:35 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: tbw2

Imagine of Google was around during the AIDS Epidemic in the 80’s.


18 posted on 08/24/2020 8:57:43 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Fai Mao

Ma Bell agrees


19 posted on 08/24/2020 9:13:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Arlis

Unforgivable!

Who do we sue?


20 posted on 08/24/2020 9:15:54 AM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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