Icymi: Facebook Sent A Dr. On A Surreptitious Mission To Inquire Hospitals To Portion Patient Information (Fb)

That goes beyond:

2004

• Zuck: Yeah too therefore if you lot e'er demand information virtually anyone at Harvard
  Zuck: Just ask
  Zuck: I convey over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
  [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you lot instruct by that one?
  Zuck: People simply submitted it.
  Zuck: I don't know why.
  Zuck: They "trust me"
  Zuck: Dumb fucks
  • Instant messages sent past times Zuckerberg during Facebook's early on days, reported past times Business Insider (May 13, 2010) via WikiQuote

too sounds damn to a greater extent than or less a HIPAA violation, amid other things.

From CNBC:

Facebook has asked several major U.S.A. hospitals to part anonymized information virtually their patients, such every bit illnesses too prescription info, for a proposed query project. Facebook was intending to tally it upwards amongst user information it had collected, too aid the hospitals figure out which patients mightiness demand exceptional aid or treatment.

The proposal never went past times the planning phases too has been rank on intermission afterward the Cambridge Analytica information leak scandal raised world concerns over how Facebook too others collect too purpose detailed information virtually Facebook users.

"This run has non progressed past times the planning phase, too nosotros convey non received, shared, or analyzed anyone's data," a Facebook spokesperson told CNBC.

But every bit of late every bit concluding month, the fellowship was talking to several wellness organizations, including Stanford Medical School too American College of Cardiology, virtually signing the data-sharing agreement.

While the information shared would obscure personally identifiable information, such every bit the patient's name, Facebook proposed using a mutual estimator scientific discipline technique called "hashing" to tally individuals who existed inwards both sets. Facebook says the information would convey been used exclusively for query conducted past times the medical community....MORE

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