Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans

Can anyone say that's illegal as fuck? Guess what will happen, nothing!

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 largest 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.

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And unfortunately, this is all legal, by definition of the law.

Maybe Congress (both sides) should grow a spine and ban this kind of nonsense?

What do you propose should be the solution?

 

No it's not, have you ever heard of the HIPAA law? Exactly what you have said, but they aren't just spineless but also paid for like marionettes.

 

Apparently, you have a reading comprehension issue.

Direct from the article you have linked:

"Privacy experts said it appeared to be permissible under federal law. That law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, generally allows hospitals to share data with business partners without telling patients, as long as the information is used “only to help the covered entity carry out its health care functions.” Google in this case is using the data, in part, to design new software, underpinned by advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning, that zeroes in on individual patients to suggest changes to their care.

This is a loophole in HIPPA and allowed by the definition of how Google is using it.

So I ask again, what is your solution to this, almighty god-fearing Trump, besides tweeting about it on twitter?

 

It is a loophole, what else do you want me to tell you? Just like with the phone companies, they collect your history and by law since you don't actually own it, law enforcement can obtain it without a warrent.
It's called a loophole for a reason.