Facebook Talked to Hospitals About Merging Anonymous User Profiles with Health Data Last Year
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Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has paused their investigation into working with hospitals to acquire "anonymous" health data that would then be matched to "anonymous" user data....
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Making all of it no longer anonymous, of course. A handy way to bypass both HIPAA and all user protections. Not only would Facebook get direct access to HIPAA protected data in a way that bypasses HIPAA protections, but then takes away all user knowledge or control of that data - including any way to even verify that the data is accurate.
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I bet the goal here was to sell this data to insurance companies to give them guidance on who to refuse to insure.
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