Posted on 04/05/2018 7:35:20 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients.
The idea was to build profiles of people that included their medical conditions, information that health systems have, as well as social and economic factors gleaned from Facebook.
Facebook said the project is on hiatus so it can focus on "other important work, including doing a better job of protecting people's data."
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Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project. Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected, and help the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.
The proposal never went past the planning phases and has been put on pause after the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal raised public concerns over how Facebook and others collect and use detailed information about Facebook users.
"This work has not progressed past the planning phase, and we have not received, shared, or analyzed anyone's data," a Facebook spokesperson told CNBC.
But as recently as last month, the company was talking to several health organizations, including Stanford Medical School and American College of Cardiology, about signing the data-sharing agreement.
While the data shared would obscure personally identifiable information, such as the patient's name, Facebook proposed using a common computer science technique called "hashing" to match individuals who existed in both sets. Facebook says the data would have been used only for research conducted by the medical community.
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Why delete the accounts better to get class action lawsuit- think HIPPA
“This is what happens when you make medical records electronic.”
BINGO!!
The lobbyist that pushed for The HITECH Act (EMRs) worked for the data mining people. (Facebook?)
I’m beginning to think HIPPA is not applied equally.
The ad suggestions are an annoyance compared to being unknowingly denied medical care because of political beliefs. That’s where this is going btw.
All your data belong to us ... including what you never intended to share with us.
That is a danger, too, as the left is less and less concerned about hiding the fact that they love the idea of killing people off. Oh, they are all compassionate about the “correct” people—but have no qualms about how they treat the “wrong” people.
Killing off their opponents is the ONLY reason they want(ed) nationalized healthcare.
They’d be able to match people to their medical profiles very easily.
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