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Google Insider: Patients weren't informed, not given opt-out re Google's hoovering up their medical records | |
2019-11-16 | |
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Posted by:Lex |
#8 Impossible to anonymize medical data and still have it generate useful features for analysis. The family history, genetic footprint, medical history are essential. These uniquely identify a patient. It is insane to allow for-profit, unregulated, non-medical non-specialty firms to even touch medical data. |
Posted by: Lex 2019-11-16 13:04 |
#7 anonymise? You mean remove the name and leave the Medical Record Number, Address, DOB, etc... intact? Anonymizing Medical data - It's hard to do it right. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-11-16 13:01 |
#6 If no opt-out was offered, then Google's busted. |
Posted by: Lex 2019-11-16 07:22 |
#5 Dunno. I read the other day that there's weasel words in the HIPAA Act that may give them legal, if not ethical, cover. |
Posted by: Mercutio 2019-11-16 07:21 |
#4 If they moved non-anonymised or non-aggregated data out of the companies systems and onto the google cloud then they probably did break the law. Dumb! |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-16 06:03 |
#3 "Hey Google:" How is my doctor ripping me off? |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-11-16 04:29 |
#2 Go full Teddy! |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-16 02:10 |
#1 These f-----s mine my emails, my messages, my appointments. There are background apps that listen to my conversations. They are grabbing every behavioral input imaginable in order to figure out how to sell advertisements. This business model is perverted. It's sick, broken. Break up these bastards and put user consent and privacy -- not behaviorally-targeted advertising -- at the center of every digital experience. Break 'em up. |
Posted by: Lex 2019-11-16 00:51 |