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Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
wsj.com ^ | 11/11/19 | Rob Copeland

Posted on 11/11/2019 1:01:01 PM PST by ransomnote

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To: ransomnote
Ha!

I'm Safe!

My Doc's office got ransomwared last year and now only have written records.

21 posted on 11/11/2019 1:40:55 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: ransomnote

I wonder if Google is buying health information from government agencies like OSHPD in California? OSHPD has hundreds of millions of people’s health care records dating back to the 1980s.


22 posted on 11/11/2019 1:43:10 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: LouieFisk

Play with them and ask about gun shot wounds, radiation exposure, anthrax exposure, and etc.


23 posted on 11/11/2019 1:44:44 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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bkmk


24 posted on 11/11/2019 1:45:23 PM PST by farming pharmer
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To: reed13k

A couple days after my wife was in the hospital for a serious illness I started getting health care ads (text) on my dumb phone and our home phone but not my wife’s smart phone.
Friends and family had been posting on Farcebook. I do not have a Farcebook account but somehow they or Gurgle got my number.


25 posted on 11/11/2019 1:48:33 PM PST by Cold Heart (.)
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To: dfwgator

“Which is why you should always add “Asking for a friend” to your searches.”

There’s an idea!


26 posted on 11/11/2019 1:56:25 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

Quick, everybody go to Google and search “brain transplant”


27 posted on 11/11/2019 1:58:05 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Cold Heart

“A couple days after my wife was in the hospital for a serious illness I started getting health care ads (text) on my dumb phone”

Had a close relative who was in intensive care for a good while - I got some snail mail ads from funeral homes.


28 posted on 11/11/2019 1:59:16 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: reed13k

HIPAA laws are for the little people.


29 posted on 11/11/2019 2:08:18 PM PST by ealgeone
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HIPAA laws are for the little people.

Largely true. It was concocted by the Clinton Administration to keep prying eyes away from Bill's surgical nose reconstruction and VD treatments.


30 posted on 11/11/2019 2:17:48 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: ransomnote

Google is evil.

De-google your life.


31 posted on 11/11/2019 2:18:22 PM PST by bkopto
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To: ransomnote

If they’re ever charged with a crime, by the time it gets to the SC, they’ll already have made copies of everything and everyone 10 times over.


32 posted on 11/11/2019 2:19:30 PM PST by bgill
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To: Pajamajan

they just bought fitbit also

same issue

however....google is far bigger than any government, so not sure if they are afraid of hipaa?


33 posted on 11/11/2019 2:20:18 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: LouieFisk
Yeah well I search my penis is too big and hard for our species, and my blood pressure is that of a 23 year old decathalin runner. I guess that makes it so?

My brother has a neat trick that chews the Google algorithm up for days at a time. Real fun to do as well.

Google doesn't write code to discern disinformation.

34 posted on 11/11/2019 2:29:07 PM PST by blackdog
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To: blackdog

“Google doesn’t write code to discern disinformation.”

True, tho I expect it has some kind of “filtering” somewhere. But yeah, you could declare yourself Superman and it is gospel to Google.


35 posted on 11/11/2019 2:36:59 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Pajamajan

They don’t give a crap about any type of law or Hippa violations. That stuff is for the little people, don’t you know?


36 posted on 11/11/2019 2:44:51 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: bkopto

Google is evil.
De-google your life.

Problem is no other search engines come close to the amount of info google offers.


37 posted on 11/11/2019 2:46:40 PM PST by setter
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To: LouieFisk

My daughter got a speeding ticket recently. Within one week she started getting snail mail attorneys, ticket clinics, driving schools


38 posted on 11/11/2019 2:47:34 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: bkopto

All the big tech companies are spying on you through your iPhone. Every time there’s an update to an iPhone, you get all these neat new new apps. On my last update there was a Health app placed on my phone. Dumb people think oh how cool. I can count my steps yay! These apps are not to help you


39 posted on 11/11/2019 2:50:25 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: Maskot

Yeah, that’s how it goes. Though I think that’s more just a matter of subscribing a government list than anything google-related. Everything is for sale.


40 posted on 11/11/2019 2:56:16 PM PST by LouieFisk
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