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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Google Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans

Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed

Google is engaged with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.

The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest in a series of efforts by Silicon Valley giants to gain access to personal health data and establish a toehold in the massive health-care industry. Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.

Google began Project Nightingale in secret last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, the second-largest health system in the U.S., with the data sharing accelerating since summer, according to internal documents.

The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.

Neither patients nor doctors have been notified.

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6 comments:


  1. Isn't there something called HIPPA that makes this kind of thing very illegal?

    Or is that only when they choose to use it to block access?

    I'm beginning to think that Google/Facebook/23AndMe is a big government operation to build "the database."

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    1. You are so right about the data base being created by undercover fictitious companies. More sophisticated than j hoover ever imagined

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  2. 11:34 is close to the real truth

    And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

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  3. The Govt just cherry-picks what to enforce or not !!!

    PLus > Obama authorized NSA to Spy on Everyone !!! Fact

    NSA makes Google & Others give THEM all wanted INFO !!!

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  4. RFID tags on every product manufactured is coming with 5G and will track them from manufacture to landfill.

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  5. Everything is Collected !!! Get used to it

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